The answer is simple and it also stings. It’s in Nashville because Nashville asked for it.

In.Live will stream the “Coming Together,” organized by former Big Star drummer Jody Stephens of Ardent. Performers will also include Keith Sykes and musicians from bands such as Cheap Trick, The Posies and Wilco.

The museum in Overton Park will reopen under the new Health Directive 17.

Major films including “Wonder Woman 1984” and “One Night in Miami” will be showing as theaters reopen following the newest health directive. 

A photograph of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has gone viral, and plenty of Memphians have gotten in on the fun. 

Performing from the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis-bred superstar Timberlake and students from the Stax Academy were part of the “Celebrating America” broadcast following Wednesday’s presidential inauguration. 

The television series on the Civil Rights Movement is set in the 1950s needs people with a ‘50s vibe.

In a free, virtual series, actors will perform speeches by Booker T. Washington, Shirley Chisholm, Dick Gregory and John Lewis. They’ll be introduced by Shelby County Commission members present and past and a Rhodes College professor, among others. 

Over the past quarter century, Robert Gordon’s book has become a favorite of music lovers, and now it’s back in a revised edition that features 80 new photographs, fresh interviews, and an updated introduction.

Sundance has long been the American independent film scene’s most prominent launching pad.

Memphis musicians Garry Goin, TykeT, Karen Brown and Adajyo will perform. 

Berl Olswanger died in 1981, and now his daughter is working with Big Round Records to bring out digital releases of three of his records from the 1950s and ’60s. 

An exhibit that opened recently marks the half-century anniversary of one of American culture’s more colorful and peculiar moments. 

The Memphis Zoo’s first new baby of the year was an African penguin chick, born on Jan. 2.

Many of Dickey’s books made it to The New York Times bestsellers list.

The museum has been closed to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic while the Mud Island River Park has been open to visitors.

The music nonprofit is expanding performance opportunities for musicians. The new space is a vacant half-acre lot behind the site of the renowned blues musician’s family home.

Eso Tolson’s work is part of Coca-Cola’s “New Year, New Hope” campaign being introduced on New Year’s Eve.

The pandemic reduced opportunities to see movies in the theater, but even the oddest, most disrupted of years produced plenty worth seeing. 

As the Shelby County Health Department’s Dr. Bruce Randolph said yesterday, if you’re not listed as open in the latest health directive, you should be closed.

The theater company based in Overton Square worked with Regional One to create “From the Frontlines of COVID-19,” a series that gives a virtual stage to some of the health care providers who are getting us through a crisis.

We can pledge not to go “back to normal.” Normal, in the best of times, found us donating to GoFundMe campaigns to cover emergency medical bills of folks in our music community. Normal was $100 a gig for musicians. Normal is the system that’s broken.

Taking opera from the concert halls to the streets was not a new notion for Opera Memphis. Their annual “30 Days of Opera” features small pop-up performances in unlikely places, from playgrounds and dog parks to libraries and groceries. 

An old-time Christmas story, read aloud by Scott Morris, Kirk Whalum and Geoff Calkins.

Brooks plans to reopen Jan. 23 if directive expires.