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<strong>Rachel McAdams stars in "Send Help."</strong> (Courtesy 20th Century Studios)Visual Arts

Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Send Help’ is a good time, and ‘Macbeth’ is at Crosstown

Stranded on a South Pacific island with Rachel McAdams? Be careful what you wish for in Sam Raimi’s “Send Help.”

By Chris Herrington 5 hours ago
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Arts Beat: Satisfying our craving for crafting

The Bluff City has a taste for zine-making parties, vision-board groups, flash-tattoo embroidery classes and beyond.

By Kelsey Bowen January 30, 2026
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Gloria Wade-Gayles, who wrote about living near border between Black and white in 1940s and ’50s Memphis, dies

Wade-Gayles, a graduate of the LeMoyne College, died Tuesday, Jan. 27, in Atlanta. An educator, activist and author, she penned a memoir about growing up in the old Foote Homes public-housing development.

By Bill Dries January 31, 2026
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Calkins: After a year of triumph, death and music, the Central High jazz band plays on

Well, darn. The Central High band won’t be going back to New York this year to defend its title in the Essentially Ellington jazz contest. But after a year of triumph and tragedy, that won’t stop director Ollie Liddell from teaching “with (his) hair on fire.”

By Geoff Calkins February 01, 2026

  • The To-Do List

    Pro cornhole comes to town, and the Dixon celebrates 50 years

    In this week’s To-Do List, a new Pink Palace exhibit explores the science and culture of food. And Urban Earth hosts a workshop on air plants.

    By Bianca Phillips, Alys Drake February 02, 2026
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    Germantown seeks artist with tunnel vision for Greenway mural

    The pedestrian tunnel mural will kick off Germantown’s Greenway art project. 

    By Abigail Warren February 01, 2026
  • Visual Arts

    Memphis Movies This Week: International, animated Oscar nominees open

    Five major-category Oscar nominees that have been available on local screens during the storm will stick around next week. This week also welcomes a couple of new Oscar nominees to town. 

    By Chris Herrington January 27, 2026
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: Good news, chilly Memphians. Some 650,000 (!) tulips will be here soon.

    So many tulips! A truckload of tulips! The Dixon Gallery & Gardens is celebrating its 50th anniversary with 650,000 tulips — more than double what it’s ever had before.

    By Geoff Calkins January 27, 2026
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    The Arts Beat: Connect with the arts, even if you’re iced in

    Whether it’s snow, sleet, ice or all of the above, there are plenty of ways to bring the arts into your home this snowpocalypse. 

    By Kelsey Bowen January 23, 2026
  • Arts & Culture

    Twenty years after ‘Hustle & Flow,’ Craig Brewer directs another Oscar-nominated performance

    When Oscar nominations were announced Thursday, Jan. 22, one relative surprise was a Best Actress nomination for Kate Hudson, who plays Milwaukee tribute singer Claire Sardina in “Song Sung Blue.”

    By Chris Herrington January 22, 2026
  • Update The To-Do List

    New Spillit film fest shares true stories; sober is sexy at Complicated Pilgrim

    In this week’s To-Do List, Eastern European Jewish music meets punk at the Buckman, and the music of Alanis Morissette is the soundtrack for a show at Playhouse.

    By Bianca Phillips, Holly Whitfield, Alys Drake January 23, 2026
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: The new leader of Ballet Memphis has a hobby. It involves Michael Jordan — and you.

    Andrew Goldberg, the new executive director of Ballet Memphis, has more ticket stubs to Michael Jordan games than anyone in the world.

    By Geoff Calkins January 21, 2026
  • Visual Arts

    Memphis Movies This Week: See Oscar hopefuls ‘The Secret Agent,’ ‘Sentimental Value’ while you can

    The Oscar nominations will be announced Thursday and will be followed locally by a bundle of expected nominees making their debut on local screens, making a return or expanding their footprint.

    By Chris Herrington January 22, 2026
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    Friendship, sex and marriage are on stage at Memphis theaters this month

    Grab your besties and head to the theater for shows that will tickle your funny bone, move your body and possibly scratch that itch in Memphis theaters this month.

    By Alys Drake January 22, 2026
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    Ask the Memphian: What twists of fate led to the founding of the Dixon Gallery & Gardens?

    Through improbable twists of fate and the generosity and foresight of Hugo and Margaret Dixon, the Dixon Gallery & Gardens has become a jewel in the city’s cultural landscape.

    By Jody Callahan January 19, 2026
  • Premium Performing Arts

    Arts Beat: Hattiloo bringing play to South Africa

    The all-Memphis cast will spend a month in South Africa, with support from Hattiloo. 

    By Alys Drake January 16, 2026
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    Memphis lands $74M in state money for Beale Street

    DMC CEO Chandell Ryan said the city sought the state money with Beale Street in mind — in part to send a signal to the private sector that Beale Street, and the area around it, is worthy of further investment. 

    By Samuel Hardiman January 15, 2026
  • Premium The To-Do List

    Former Vice President Harris is here; plus, ways to serve on MLK Day

    In this week’s To-Do List, cozy up with a book at Loflin, revive your dying houseplants with tips from Carmeon Hamilton and mask up for a rave at the Cadre.

    By Bianca Phillips, Kelsey Bowen, Alys Drake January 15, 2026
  • The Sidebar: Eric Barnes on arts, culture & more

    Brantley Ellzey on the intensity and relief he finds in his new art exhibit

    Artist Brantley Ellzey joins Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of “The Sidebar” to talk about work, his life and his Crosstown Arts exhibit, titled “Reflection + Ritual + Refuge.”

    By Eric Barnes January 15, 2026
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    ‘Young Warriors’ is more than a movie made in Memphis; it’s the start of a film ecosystem in Memphis

    As “Young Warriors” wraps filming across Memphis, a local production company is proving the city can be both the setting and the engine for films with national reach and deep local roots.

    By Christin Yates January 18, 2026
  • City of Memphis

    Council plans to turn block of Monroe into ‘Hyde Family Way’

    The council will take the first of three votes later this month on changing the name of the street between the new Memphis Art Museum and the Cossitt Library. 

    By Bill Dries January 13, 2026
  • Visual Arts

    Memphis Movies This Week: ‘No Other Choice,’ ‘28 Years Later’

    Chris Herrington notes that “January and February can bring the late arrival of some of the prior year’s best films, especially of the foreign-language variety.”

    By Chris Herrington January 18, 2026
  • State Government

    In Memoriam: Memphians who died in 2025

    Memphis lost music legends, corporate titans and community leaders in 2025. Here is a look at their lives.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff January 13, 2026
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    Aspiring blacksmiths, welders and more get ‘taste’ of metal arts

    The National Ornamental Metal Museum’s “Taster” classes are meant to do just what the name implies: give folks a taste of different styles of the metal arts with the hope that they fall in love with it.

    By Jody Callahan January 10, 2026
  • Premium The Arts Beat

    Arts Beat: Memphis museums, filmmakers in national spotlight

    Music, museums, moviemakers. When it comes to Memphis, there is plenty to check out. And we aren’t the only ones who think so. 

    By Elle Perry January 09, 2026
  • The Sidebar: Eric Barnes on arts, culture & more

    What to expect as Baron Von Opperbean gets closer to opening on Mud Island

    Jee Vahn Knight discusses Baron Von Opperbean and the River of Time, the next phases of expansion and how their business model works, on this week’s Sidebar.

    By Eric Barnes January 09, 2026
  • The To-Do List

    Be a blacksmith for a day, and celebrate the Goblin King’s 40th birthday

    This week, Novel hosts a Broadway party, local cartoonists gamify art and Good Fortune’s head bartender takes over an Edge District bar.

    By Bianca Phillips, Kelsey Bowen, Alys Drake January 08, 2026
  • Visual Arts

    Memphis Movies This Week: Bradley Cooper’s ‘Is This Thing On?,’ a Jim Jarmusch award-winner

    Jim Jarmusch is a New York filmmaker, but one with Memphis connections. Chris Herrington says the filmmaker’s “Mystery Train” is arguably the greatest of Memphis movies.

    By Chris Herrington January 09, 2026
  • Premium The Arts Beat

    Arts Beat: Hear Detroit jazz, Memphis soul and a ‘Genius Grant’ winner in January

    A local band celebrates a new album and a decade of creating music, while two singers proclaim Memphis R&B is not dead (via concert).

    By Elle Perry January 04, 2026

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