Follow along on University of Memphis alumnus and Sunshine Enterprise CEO Wei Chen’s ambitious goal to circle the globe in a single-engine aircraft, stopping in 40 cities spanning 21 countries, over the course of only ten weeks. When he sets back down on Memphis soil he will be the first Chinese citizen to have completed [...]
The hot new Memphis-based band Tom Foolery, fresh off recording their second EP in Los Angeles, is back home and will be back playing live Friday, June 3rd! Read more to learn about Tom Foolery and their next show.
Flannery has asked on more than one occasion lately when we’re headed back to Rhodes for the “party with the ducks.” And it’s finally time to indulge her! Voices of the South hosts their 6th annual Memphis Children’s Theatre Festival (inspired by Edinburgh’s Children’s International Festival) on the Rhodes College campus on May 27-28. This [...]
Ballet Memphis company members invite you to a unique performance that has been choreographed, costumed, staged, and performed by the company members themselves! On June 2 – 4 at the Ballet Memphis Studios, company members will perform “Interiorworks 12″ benefitting the Artists’ Resource Fund. This is the 12th year for this type of performance and [...]
In case you haven’t heard, the casts of megahit TV shows iCarly and Victorious (if you have to ask, you probably don’t have kids!) are coming to the Peabody Hotel on Saturday for Stars for the Kids, a St. Jude benefit. The evening will include the opportunity to meet these young stars, and an incredibly [...]
For a company whose clientele includes FedEx, International Paper and ServiceMaster, Mind Over Data‘s foray into national interactive museum exhibits was an unexpected one. When GTOO Media, an exhibit media design firm, was contracted to design interactive exhibits for the GRAMMY Museum in 2008, they sought the assistance of the Memphis-based custom software development company [...]
Because this is what you should be doing. Project Unsheltered: Unseen is the baby of one of my friends, Justin Deere, and a bunch of other Rhodes College students. I got to learn of this project through my own weekly volunteer work at the soup kitchen… Justin had come in with his team and distributed [...]
Free Spring Concert on April 26th at Colonial Middle School.
MemphisConnect mentioned that Sunshine Enterprise CEO Wei Chen sets off next month for an historic global flight- now you have the chance to create his soundtrack. The Memphis Music Foundation (home of the groundbreaking Music Resource Center) has partnered with Wei Around the World to launch a theme song contest that runs through April 25. [...]
Ten years ago, I left a career as one of the founding members of the Memphis-born and still-popular Christian rock band Skillet to live out a vision of mine – to start a music college for students seeking to enter the music industry or modern church music leadership. That vision came to fruition as Visible [...]
