This week, Juneteenth gets started early, the BoDeans are at the Shell and the Memphis Social Bicycle Club races — in drag. 

The Cooper-Young record label and record store will bring its fest to Wiseacre Brewery on Broad Avenue for three days, with the final day at the Overton Park Shell. 

Shell on Wheels is bringing the experience of being in Overton Park at The Shell to Memphis neighborhoods.

Visitors to the Dixon Gallery & Gardens can venture inside a fantastical world for free until Sunday, June 29.

Plus, Chris Herrington ranks the Wes Anderson films he’s seen.

The “Rock and Roll Granny,” the man who went down to the Crossroads, a titan of Memphis radio and three noted soul/R&B singers of different stripes and generations are the new inductees of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.

Through a podcast, artist gatherings, guided walks through Overton Park and his popular collage parties, visual artist and musician Zack Orsborn has found people who are, like, really creative.

Each year, the two-day Memphis festival celebrates June 19, 1865, when enslaved Texans learned of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Saturday morning’s thunderstorms that brought lightning and 1-2 inches of rain have disrupted several outdoor events planned for the day.

“Landscape is the quickest way to ingratiate yourself and understand what it is to be in Memphis and what it means to be in the Delta South,” Hank Miles Smith said.

This year’s Memphis Juneteenth events include concerts, festivals, parades, film screenings, dance, theater and spoken word. 

In June, attendees can choose from events including parties, parades, drag brunches and drag bicycle races during Pride Month.

Meant to be showcase intimate performances by Memphis musicians, Beale Street Live kicked off Friday with a performance by local artist Savannah Brister.

Theatergoers can choose from award-winning musicals, a show filled with ‘80s tunes, a dark comedy and an intimate drama on Memphis stages in June.

Tony Alexander, president and director of MIME, said the entertainment group does not plan to leave the city, but is ‘testing the waters’ on selling its Union Avenue real estate.

A new documentary about late musician Jeff Buckley is headed to theaters this summer, but will it be headed to a theater near you?

The devil’s in the Bluff City in at least two of the novels on this book list — a Memphis-set family drama and a “Southern noir’ full of “madcappery.”

This week, Juneteenth kicks off early, Just City gives us a reason to laugh and you can sip booze in a bookshop for a good cause.

An Edge District alley is getting a glow-up. 

Olivia Wall from the Memphis Botanic Garden talks with Eric Barnes about the 25th anniversary of Live at the Garden.

Seeing a movie on the big screen with the score performed live is a real treat, and one usually reserved for silent films. But not so Thursday.

Novel Bookstore will host a launch party for Robert Busby’s “Bodock: Stories.” The short-story collection is set in North Mississippi during the ice storm of 1994.

Those who fancied themselves good spellers gathered Saturday at Crosstown Brewing Co. for the Drunken Dictionary Spelling Bee.

Third Eye Blind, Ashanti, Ja Rule and other artists are also scheduled to perform. Here’s a roundup of concerts coming to the Memphis area in June.

Local artist Andre LeMoyne Miller will open an art gallery Saturday, May 31, as part of the Downtown Memphis Commission’s Open on Main initiative.