This is why Memphis is amazing to me. See this article about the Rhodes-Hill mural I helped guide through UrbanArt with the Rhodes College CODA program. Public art, and murals in particular, create new avenues toward a more meaningful community.
It’s that TIME—Lil Rounds is coming back home to Memphis on tomorrow (4/28) and we would like to give her the BIGGEST & BEST Homecoming ever. All those who are willing & able, please join us at the Memphis Int”l Airport Tuesday evening on Northwest Airlines. Her plane comes in 6:30pm & I suggest that [...]
Get ready for Craig Brewer’s $5 Cover on MTV this week. Use the above postcard to tell all your friends about it!
Two excellent organizations combine forces to create the perfect springtime family afternoon. I’ll be taking the girls (I hope that they’ll allow me to help with the bracelet making). Hope to see you there! THE NATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM AND VOICES OF THE SOUTH bring you SPRING ARTS ON THE BLUFF WHEN: Sunday April 26, [...]
I get such a bizarre sense of satisfaction knowing that every spring zombies wander the streets of downtown Memphis. Yes, sure, I love horror movies and Halloween, but the annual Memphis Zombie Walk is as much performance art as it is homage to Romero or Fulci. I imagine we’ll watch Friday’s march from afar to [...]
I don’t know about you but I love having out-of-town guests. Aside from the fact that I love entertaining, getting to experience the city with an outsider makes it even that more exciting. So where do I take them or better yet, with so many different things to do, where do I take them so [...]
I’m encouraged as of late by the steadily building success of art start-ups in Memphis. Now, by ‘start-up’ I don’t necessarily mean a for-profit entrepreneurial venture, because some of them are not in it for the cash. No, I am speaking of a certain self-starter drive unique to Memphis it seems. Here, artists know you [...]
This weekend is the 23rd Annual Africa In April Cultural Celebration. Here is an excerpt from the Africa In April web site: “Africa In April Cultural Awareness Festival, Inc. celebrates 23 years of African History and Culture on the internationally famous Beale Street at Robert R. Church Park, Downtown Memphis, Tennessee on April 16 – [...]
By now you must know that Craig Brewer’s $5 Cover premieres on MTV on May 1. What you might not know is that you can enter images from your own night out on the M Town in the Commercial Appeal’s photo contest: Upload pictures and videos of your $5 Cover-style night out in Memphis. We [...]
On April, 19 2009, True Story Pictures will present a benefit concert billed as An Intimate Evening of Songs and Stories at Minglewood Hall in Memphis, Tennessee. “We wanted to have an evening where people could hear the songs and the stories that have helped create the fabric of Memphis,” said True Story Pictures founder [...]
