International Blues Challenge showcases the genre’s youngest performers
Blues may be thought of as a genre of older performers, but during the International Blues Challenge, young blues musicians from all over the world meet in Memphis.
Elle Perry
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January 2019
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Business Memphis trivia companies provide group bonding over shared culture
Memphis groups have been conducting trivia nights as an entertainment offering that brings patrons into restaurants and facilitates bonding over shared cultures.
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Visual Arts Paper, metalwork showcased at CBU Ross Gallery exhibitions
Two shows open Friday at CBU's Beverly & Sam Ross Gallery. "Labor" features paper work created by artist Katie Maish. "Forge, Cast, Fabricate" features the Metal Museum's staff artists and apprentices.
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Music JCKSN Ave, composed of 5 Memphis sisters, preps for album debut
Five Memphis sisters, all members of the band JCKSN Ave, are working on their debut album. Soon they are departing to L.A. to work on the project with two acclaimed producers from Memphis.
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Music Bobby Rush and Buddy Guy among nominees for Blues Music Awards
The Memphis-based Blues Foundation has announced nominees for its 40th awards celebration. The winners, recognized for achievements in performances, recordings, songwriting and sustaining the blues, will be revealed in May.
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Shelby County Eads family seeks return of father banned from U.S. after immigration interview in Mexico
An Eads family has been working to secure the return of their father to the United States after they say he was permanently banned from re-entering in August after a scheduled immigrant visa interview at the U.S. Consulate in Juarez, Mexico. -
Visual Arts Memphis’ Creative Works conference noted for speaker gender equality strides
American Institute of Graphic Arts, a professional design association, has highlighted a Memphis creative conference for strides in the gender equality of its speakers. -
Business LRK leaders on designing creative spaces in Memphis, Dallas and Philly
The Crosstown Arts Theater and South Main Artspace Lofts both opened this year. Besides being spaces built with artists in mind, the spaces also have something else in common – the projects were designed by Memphis architecture firm Looney Ricks Kiss. -
Performing Arts Memphis mother and son run LGBTQ magazine, radio show
Gwendolyn Clemons and her son Davin have a lot in common.
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December 2018
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Music 2019 will be a ‘Year for Memphis Music’
The Memphis music community is launching an initiative called Year for Memphis Music to align and amplify local projects being created, says Visible Music College president Ken Steorts. -
Performing Arts Venezolanos en Memphis, cellists organize string donation drive
When members of the local Venezuelan alliance Venezolanos en Memphis learn of a fellow countryperson arriving in Memphis, often with nothing, they provide everything from clothing and mattresses to referrals for housing support. -
Arts & Culture Novel, Literacy Mid-South team up for children
According to 2018 TNReady test scores almost 80 percent of Shelby County Schools' third-graders are not proficient in reading. Read901, convened by Literacy Mid-South, is working to get 90 percent of third-graders reading at grade level by 2025. -
Arts & Culture The CLTV finds home in Orange Mound
Founded in 2015, The Collective (CLTV) has a three-part mission: empowering black artists, using their creative expression to elevate the black community and using the first two parts to shift the culture in Memphis. -
Metro Knowledge Quest students bring design thinking to Tom Lee Park redesign
The Knowledge Quest students helping with the reimagining of the Memphis riverfront and Tom Lee Park spent this past summer engaged in a Stanford University-style design thinking lab. -
Business New dorm proposed near University of Memphis
A developer is looking to turn the former Sigma Alpha Epsilon house near the University of Memphis campus into a privately owned and operated dormitory. -
Business Community Foundation awards $200,000 to 19 organizations
Local organizations getting funds for technology enhancements, personnel training through Coummnuity Foundation grants.
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Arts & Culture Memphian Alice Faye Duncan’s newest book focuses on Gwendolyn Brooks
Macmillan published Alice Faye Duncan’s first children’s book in 1995. Sterling Children’s Books will release Duncan’s latest, “A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks” on Jan. 1. Duncan will host a virtual book signing where she will read Brooks’ poems from the book, as well as discuss her significance in American literature. -
Arts & Culture Memphian Skyy Blair wins nationwide competition from BET and Issa Rae’s ColorCreative
Memphis author, screenwriter and playwright April “Skyy” Blair decided 2018 would be her “year of yes,” a leap of faith to start saying yes to things she normally would not consider. -
Arts & Culture Aretha Franklin birthplace case continued in environmental court
Shelby County Environmental Court Judge Patrick Dandridge heard a status update about Aretha Franklin’s birthplace on Dec. 12. -
Business Tech901 course helps Rhodes College employee grow in career
With a $250 class – and hard work – Kimberly Wamble was able to grow her salary by 20 percent. -
Visual Arts New program places working artists in Memphis preschools
Fifty Shelby County Schools pre-kindergarten teachers and administrators began professional development workshops in early childhood visual arts curricula, art center management strategies and the connections between visual arts, literacy and early childhood development in late September. -
Visual Arts How Feldman’s time in Memphis prepped the incoming National Gallery of Art director
Earlier this week Kaywin Feldman was named the first female director of the National Gallery of Art in the museum’s 77-year history – and nobody in Memphis was surprised. -
Performing Arts Lil Buck talks transition to film
While Charles “Lil Buck” Riley rehearsed for this year’s edition of "Nut ReMix" at New Ballet Ensemble & School on Monday afternoon, a crew of two filmed him for an upcoming television dance docuseries. -
Performing Arts How a Swiss ballet company founder became ‘Nut ReMix’ Snow Queen
The Snow Queen in New Ballet Ensemble & School’s 2018 performances of “Nut ReMix” comes all the way from Zurich. But how she came to perform with the group actually begins in Italy. -
Music Latest Acoustic Sunday Live features Bobby Rush, benefits Protect Our Aquifer
Bobby Rush is playing a Memphis benefit concert in a little more than a week’s time. The beneficiary of the concert: a nonprofit with the mission to create an entity that will monitor and manage the Memphis Sand Aquifer in Shelby County. The aquifer is the source of Memphis’ drinking water.
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