This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. As I stood in the basement at A. Schwab looking over…
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Thomas Campbell solo exhibit Corollary at the Metal Museum
Inside the Keeler Gallery – the first exhibition space behind the Metal Museum’s visitor desk – large, curving steel sculptures hang on walls and sit…
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Mary Jade “MJ” Learned, a rising senior at First Assembly Christian School, won Playhouse on the Square’s 4th annual Play Slam! 10-Minute Young Playwright’s Festival…
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This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. From its founding in 1864 to the present, Memphis-based printing company,…
Read More S.C. Toof: A Memphis InstitutionSecret Gardens on View at the Cooper-Young Garden Walk
Gardens are stories written in plants, hardscapes, water features, and sky blue patios. They are windows through which visitors can catch glimpses of their caretakers’…
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Summer does not begin until the fence goes up around Marquette Park. Until the bocce balls roll, the gravies simmer, and the grapes are stomped.…
Read More Memphis Italian Festival: A Family Tradition to Start SummerVictory House in Court Square: WWII in Memphis
On the evening of May 13, 1942, a bugler called Assembly in front of a small house in Downtown Memphis’s Court Square. The Bartlett High…
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The Poor People’s Campaign, one of the lesser known aspects of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, is the focus of a new Smithsonian Institution traveling…
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Passing through two of the Dixon Gallery & Gardens’ Sweet 16 exhibits – an ambitious and successful bid to fill all 16 of the museum’s…
Read More Quinceañera Exhibit at the Dixon: A Sweet CelebrationWatch and Read the Winning Tom Lee Poetry Contest Works
Tom Lee Poetry Contest Winners On Friday, May 6, 2022, the Memphis River Parks Partnership recognized the winners of the inaugural Tom Lee Poetry and…
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