Doughnuts were free for a while at Gibson’s Wednesday morning, the first local food giveaway campaign sponsored by The Kindness Revolution.

The show will air on Bloomberg TV at 2:30 p.m. April 25 and May 2. 

The Citizens to Preserve Overton Park took its fight to stop a highway all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Playwright Virginia Ralph saw an imaginative children’s musical in that real-life story.

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Neighborhood leaders thought the tree-lined streets, where almost every home has a veranda, would be ideal for outdoor mini-concerts.

‘Lost in Orion,’ Don Lifted’s somber yet catchy debut single with Fat Possum Records, is ‘the culmination of a really tough, frustrating and death-ridden time,’ the artist says.

The debut of “Pour Me Another” at Brooks Museum is among several art events – indoors, outdoors, in-person, online – available to viewers April 17 and 18 in Memphis.

The Rajun Cajun Crawfish Festival and Art in the Loop are planning for thousands over the weekend in distanced events.

Carmeon Hamilton’s HGTV show will likely be a six-episode “docu-style series” that shines a light on the city from her perspective. 

Dolph Smith studied and taught at what became the Memphis College of Art. Making the ladder Tennessee’s state tool was his idea. Mr. Smith didn’t go to Nashville. But he did write a letter. 

For the Levitt Shell, a series of spring and summer fundraising shows — featuring Memphis-area bands — hope to usher free shows in during the fall. 

The annual “30 Days of Opera” performances, free and outdoors, seem made to order for pandemic times, though the series has been around at Opera Memphis since 2012.

After missing 2020 due to COVID, two popular spring/summer Memphis concert series are returning next month in altered form.

Eric Robertson of Community LIFT joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

The program airs at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 4, and concludes with a moment of silence and bells tolling at 6:01 p.m., the time on April 4, 1968, when King was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. 

The venerable Al Green shows his comedic side while getting his second vaccination shot Thursday at Saint Francis, then woos others to follow suit.

One Germantown resident has won a prestigious national award for her watercolor portfolio.

‘I am the next HGTV Design Star,’ says the Memphis interior designer whose prize includes $50,000 and her own TV show. 

‘These are places never seen by the public and never to be seen again,’ said Orpheum president Brett Batterson.

Seven paintings from Dixon’s collection are included in an exhibition that will travel to San Antonio Museum of Art and the Brandywine River Museum of Art near Philadelphia after it leaves Memphis on May 9.

Garden directors can’t predict when flowers will bloom, but they can set dates and times for plant sales. The traditional spring events start in mid-April this year, and each venue has unique offerings.

The iconography atop the General Lee is the battle flag of a slavery republic. Violence in the name of white supremacy is its inherent, explicit meaning.