Broadway returns to Memphis this week, as does a big music festival. It’s also the first local event for the Ironman organization, which will see competitors doing a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike and a 13.1-mile run, all in the space of a few hours.
Country star Sam Hunt will perform at the Mid-South Fair; Collage Dance Collective’s 11th anniversary gala will be the first at its new home, and the Binghampton dance troupe is also hosting a free community celebration Saturday.
The Cooper-Young Festival returns, the show goes on for Memphis Music Hall of Famers ZZ Top and the Brooks Museum hosts a major new exhibit. That and more are among our picks for this week.
It’s Southern Heritage Classic weekend, bringing football fans to town, and the Levitt Shell concert series heats up. Elsewhere: Flicks both foodie and futuristic, some left-of-center country and two high-wattage authors.
Live, outdoor music hits Midtown in a big way this weekend. Meanwhile, smoke ’em if ya got ’em at Handy Park, find some laughs in Cordova, go record-shopping in Crosstown or hit the midway.
This week, “After Hours” is both a movie and a bike ride. Fashion gets a week and the whole city gets a day with a week’s worth of events packed into it.
It’s no longer Elvis Week, but they’re still rocking at Graceland. Meanwhile, there’s barbecue in the park and dining deals all over.
This week in Memphis: Big concerts, throwback flicks, dining specials and the unbeatable combo of chicken and beer. Plus, it’s Elvis Week.
This week in Memphis, a movie that’s become hard to see and artifacts of Memphis soul history never-before-seen are among our picks for reasons to leave the house.
This week Lucero frontman Ben Nichols will play a solo acoustic birthday show and septuagenarian gospel artist Elizabeth King, flanked by some ace Memphis sidemen, will perform a live score to a pioneering work of Black cinema.
This weekend, metal is a way of life.
Final mixes on John Paul Keith’s new album were done in February 2020, but the record had to be shelved for nearly a year due to COVID.
There’s plenty to do this week, including a celebration of Ida B. Wells, the investigative journalist and early civil rights leader. There are also exhibitions, music, beer tasting and, um, reptiles.
This weekend will see fireworks shows in the area’s suburbs as well as at Graceland and in Downtown Memphis.
When Memphis Heritage hosts an estate sale this weekend, it’ll be a little bit of Memphis meets Paris.
After being postponed a year, the inaugural Bluff City Balloon Jamboree in Collierville is finally here.
After five consecutive away games, the Memphis 901 FC will return to AutoZone Park for its season home opener.
Paula and Raiford’s Disco is now allowed to stay open from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. and the storage sale is to create room for new experiences, Paula Raiford said.
An “Orchestra Unplugged” concert includes a performance of “The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed.”
Memphis’ smaller stages are ready filling up.
Though it is generally held in the fall, the Bluff City Fair is coming back early this year.
The 87-year-old musician honed his craft at South Memphis’ Club Paradise, a pivotal venue in “The Birth of Soul Music.”
What could have been a college classroom project became, with Indie Memphis, three film screenings open to the public.
The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers Feb. 13-19.
New Year's Eve gatherings across the city highlight this week's partial list of events and celebrations for all Memphians.