Looking back at March, 2020, when the world stopped. By Wayne Dowdy Your correspondent shares some of his Covid-19 experiences and offers historical context for…
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Do You Love Our Public Libraries? Take Their Survey!
Do we love our public libraries? You betcha we do! Don’t know what we’d do without them here at StoryBoard. The Memphis Library Foundation is…
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Coliseum: Community leaders rally support and call on city council to review revitalization plans
Coliseum Coalition asks Memphis City Council to form an ad-hoc committee to meet and review a detailed revitalization plan and to halt Mayor’s recent proposals…
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Happening Now: Yoshino Cherry Trees Are Blooming on Cherry Road
One of the Memphis Botanic Garden’s favorite features, the Yoshino Cherry Trees (scientific name Prunus x yedoensis) lining Cherry Road in front of the Memphis…
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Best of Friends: Selvidge and Gordon Go One-on-One at the Shell
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Originally published in StoryBoard’s Quarterly print edition Volume I, Issue II, in April, 2022 This past February 18th, the stage play Best…
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The Mid-South Coliseum, the “People’s Building,” must be given more fair grounds to work with
For the sake of soul and $52 million*, The Coliseum, and Memphis communities, deserve better StoryBoard Memphis was founded with the mission to support local…
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The Coliseum, the People’s Building that has it all: It Says “Memphis”
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Originally published in the print edition of StoryBoard Memphis in April, 2019 as part of our “Newman to Now” series; it has…
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“Prepare to be blown away!” TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL is an inspiration
“ROOF-RAISING! IT HITS THE RAFTERS. THIS IS TINA AS WE KNOW AND ADORE HER.” – Variety “PREPARE TO BE ECSTATICALLY BLOWN AWAY!”– The Daily Beast “I’VE…
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More to Come: Playhouse on the Square History, Part 6
1993-2015: A Philanthropist Arrives: Memphis Theatre Hits Boomtime One fateful day in 1993, a top executive at AutoZone dropped by Playhouse on the Square and…
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The tragic and the absurd. Injustices that continue to echo in Playhouse’s THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
It’s one of the most important legal cases in American history, a story most Americans know nothing about, and a story that continues to echo…
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