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From a beloved Overton High band director to the Hotel Gayoso Orchestra, here's a look back at what was making headlines in Memphis.
It’s finally Friday, which means it’s time to look at several events happening across the greater Memphis area this weekend.
To celebrate Pride Month, Memphians came out in droves to Beale Street for the Memphis Pride Parade. The parade was ...
Tennessee Health Department inspectors performed hundreds of health inspections in Shelby County in May. Here's what they found.
Each week, the National Civil Rights Museum, located in the historic Lorraine Motel, offers free admission. From 3 p.m. to 5 ...
In the meantime, the Overton Park Shell has also confirmed acts for a pair of Shell Yeah! ticketed benefit concerts. Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T. will headline a Shell Yeah! show on Sept. 18.
The Bar-Kays Memphis R&B icons The Bar-Kays — led by bassist James Alexander — will celebrate 60 years with a show at the Overton Park Shell in September.
The Memphis County Blues Festival will get an early start, with doors opening at 4:45 p.m. ELVIS AT OVERTON PARK: Inside the historic 1954 concert that launched the King's career ...
Elvis made his first major public appearance 70 years ago at Memphis' Overton Park Shell. Tickets to the show, headlined by Slim Whitman, were $1.
Indeed, as detailed in this Memphis Magazine article, 2023 marks the 90th Anniversary of the first organized performance in the park, a staging of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado in a dip in ...
The 2nd hole at the Overton Park 9, where a tee shot needs to split the trees. Desi Isaacson “I would describe it as a worn-out golf course that was past its time,” Collins said, politically.
Memphis on the internet: a victory lap for the new park plan, a Memphis mischaracterization, and Sam White’s new book.