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    Beale Street Music Festival out for 2021; other events on with restrictions

    Beale Street Music Festival is out again for 2021 because of COVID-19, but the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest will return to the river. 

    By Jennifer Biggs December 18, 2020
  • Visual Arts

    At 78, a Memphis sculptor sees his work headed to museums

    Works by Luther Hampton, who graduated from the Memphis Academy of Arts in 1973, will go to three museums, including Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art and Tennessee State Museum.

    By Peggy Burch December 18, 2020
  • Arts & Culture

    Day Tripper: Ripley’s ‘Small Town, Bright Lights’ display up through Dec. 31

    Ripley, Tennessee, is a destination for its ‘Small Town, Bright Lights’ decorations displayed on the courthouse lawn, in the middle of the town square, through the end of the year.

    By Jennifer Biggs December 27, 2020
  • Spirit of Memphis

    Opinion: Jarman made radio’s hard work sound easy

    The death of Chris Jarman this week ends a radio career built on credibility with Memphis radio listeners that transcended formats and call letters.

    By Bill Dries December 17, 2020
  • Chris Herrington

    The Memphis 10: Charley Pride, Tiger hoops and 2021: The year pizza replaces COVID

    Plus, what we mean when we talk about defunding the police and where to get a good tamale in Midtown on Saturdays.

    By Chris Herrington December 17, 2020
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    The U of M’s Anne Hogan on WYXR, ballet and how she learned to drive

    The dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts at the University of Memphis, Anne Hogan, on WYXR, ballet and how she learned to drive.

    By Eric Barnes December 16, 2020
  • Arts & Culture

    Local radio personality dies after ‘tragic accident’

    Known as “The Jar,” Chris Jarman was part of “Drake and Zeke in the Morning” during its heyday. 

    By The Daily Memphian Staff December 18, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: A tale of two economies

    With the continuance of the COVID crisis, the intangible economy has come to pretty much a grinding halt. There is little or nothing to offer the world because group experiences are on hold. You see it with football, basketball, concerts and movies.

    By Jimmy Tashie December 16, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Youth arts education is imperative

    Stax Music Academy fostered small group sessions to help students cope with the stress of living in the time of a global pandemic.

    By Pat Mitchell-Worley December 12, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Freedom Awards take stock of a rich past in virtual retrospective

    The 29th awards ceremony was virtual this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The online video of past ceremonies covered the annual event all the way back to its 1991 origins.

    By Bill Dries December 11, 2020
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    Opinion: Under Terri Freeman, the National Civil Rights Museum became a catalyst for change

    Freeman asked us to take what we felt inside the museum outside and apply it.

    By Dan Conaway December 11, 2020
  • Performing Arts

    Katori Hall signs Lionsgate TV deal

    Through the deal, Hall will also commission Black playwrights.

    By Elle Perry December 10, 2020
  • Premium Chris Herrington

    The Memphis 10: COVID confessions, generic fun at Liberty Park and more

    Dolly versus Marsha; Christmas lights at Shelby Farms, Memphis Zoo and the Botanic Garden; and Don Bryant’s Grammy nomination. 

    By Chris Herrington December 10, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: In a time of pandemic and racial reckoning, we need art

    Whether it’s for psychological refuge, racial healing, creative expression or illumination of those in the shadows, it’s undeniable that we need the arts in our lives.

    By Rodney Sanders December 09, 2020
  • Music

    ArtsMemphis launches ‘Arts Week’ in a community changed, perhaps forever, by pandemic

    While the impact of COVID makes this a particularly urgent moment for the survival of the city’s creative community, ArtsMemphis also plans to make Arts Week an annual event. 

    By Chris Herrington December 07, 2020
  • Performing Arts

    Coming to a screen near you: ‘The Nutcracker’ ballet

    Ballet Memphis produced an hour-long film of the classic holiday ballet, which will be offered free on the company’s website. The New Ballet Ensemble and Children’s Ballet Theater will screen films of their “Nutcracker” performances at Malco Summer Drive-in. 

    By Peggy Burch December 10, 2020
  • Arts & Culture

    Singer Reagan Strange to host virtual concert benefitting Le Bonheur

    Reagan Strange, a former contestant on NBC’s “The Voice’ is hosting a virtual Christmas concert to benefit Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. 

    By Abigail Warren December 06, 2020
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Arts Week celebrates the ‘aha!’ moments that change our lives

    To celebrate the work artists and arts organizations have created in 2020 despite the pandemic, ArtsMemphis is introducing Arts Week Dec. 7-13. ArtsMemphis provides grants to 70 arts organization, and this year supplied emergency funds to individual artists.

    By Mia Henley December 06, 2020
  • Arts & Culture

    Beale St. Music Festival artist George Hunt is dead at 87

    Since 1992, Hunt was the official artist for the Beale Street Music Festival, creating a new painting for the festival each year for nearly three decades.

    By Omer Yusuf December 06, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    Final piece of Raleigh Springs Civic Center near completion

    The new Raleigh branch library is set to open Dec. 14, replacing the 54-year-old location at 3157 Powers Rd., which is closed as the transition begins to its future home.

    By Omer Yusuf December 05, 2020
  • City of Memphis

    For Terri Lee Freeman, leaving rights museum ‘a personal decision’

    National Civil Rights Museum president Terri Lee Freeman is leaving in February to lead a museum in Baltimore. She arrived at the helm of the museum just as the city’s new activism began to surface.

    By Bill Dries December 04, 2020
  • Arts & Culture

    Day Tripper: Time to deck the Halls, Tennessee

    A sprawling collection of mostly historic buildings and farmhouses makes up Charlene’s Colony in Halls, Tennessee, which is decked out with more holiday decorations than you’ve likely seen in one place.

    By Jennifer Biggs December 04, 2020
  • Arts & Culture

    Freeman leaves National Civil Rights Museum for Baltimore post

    During her six-year tenure, Freeman oversaw the museum’s year-and-a-half-long commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination at the Lorraine Motel.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff December 03, 2020
  • Performing Arts

    Theaters deliver ‘A Christmas Carol’ and holiday shows to your living room

    We’re not just going to be home for the holidays, but also homebound by COVID-19. Still you’ll be able to see “A Christmas Carol” performed by Memphis actors and other seasonal shows.

    By Peggy Burch December 03, 2020
  • Collierville

    Literature and outdoors meet with Collierville’s StoryWalk

    Avid readers and outdoor enthusiasts will both enjoy a new safe and socially distant activity at Halle Park in Collierville.

    By Abigail Warren December 02, 2020

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