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Memphis 3.0, the city’s master plan in progress, is using art to engage the community in the planning process by embedding local artists in disinvested areas. It’s been four decades since Memphis created a comprehensive development plan, and the…

In 2002, recent college graduates Michael Ingersoll and his girlfriend Angela Groeschen, who were interning with the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, traveled to Memphis to audition for the city’s Unified Professional Theatre Auditions…

In his masterful novella “Dubliners”— considered to be one of the finest ever written in the English language – Irish literary icon James Joyce delved into delicious detail about the lavish feast enjoyed by the story’s cast of memorable…

Indie Memphis Film Festival’s 20th run this week has seen a record number of guests and more than 100 filmmakers from around the world descending on the Bluff City. The festival that seems to get more popular every year continues will a full day of…

On Valentine’s Day a few years ago, a Binghampton boy named Donte Davis combined two of his great loves – art and the Memphis Grizzlies – when he painted a wooden heart featuring the face of his home team’s mascot. After he planted it in a neighbor’s…

American literary and civil rights icon Dr. Maya Angelou repeatedly encouraged audience members to “be a rainbow in somebody’s cloud” Saturday, Aug. 25, at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Memphis, during the Agape HeartLight…

The start of summer is a busy time of year for the Metal Museum, 374 Metal Museum Drive, which has bragging rights to some of the Bluff City’s most magnificent views of the Mississippi River. Nestled on a 3.2 acre site that’s the western half of a…

The Levitt Shell recently kicked off its season of free public concerts with its most well-attended opening weekend to date, continuing a 75-year tradition of bringing together Memphians from all walks of life to enjoy music in Overton Park. “We’re…