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  • Featured Story History Personal Narrative

    Radio Days

    By Robert Lanier, While young people today may not know that an old-time radio was once like a piece of furniture in virtually every household,…

    Robert Lanier June 15, 2024
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  • Community Featured Story History

    Your Library Diary

    The library. The name alone strikes reverberating cords of innocence and joy, craning our necks to read titles, flipping through pages of a well worn…

    Mark Fleischer May 15, 2024
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  • Arts Featured Story History

    The Malco, the Orpheum: In Search of Your Memories

    Hello readers, As StoryBoard navigates the next few chapters of our ongoing history of the Orpheum Theatre, we are inviting the memories of Memphians and…

    Mark Fleischer April 13, 2024
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  • Community Featured Story Historic Preservation

    Finally, a Path to Conservancy for the Mid-South Coliseum

    An announcement and a conversation give a Coliseum revival new hope In its most hopeful development to date, with the clearest path yet to solvency…

    Mark Fleischer March 24, 2024
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  • Featured Story History

    Luke Lea and the Tennesseans who tried to kidnap the Kaiser

    “I’d have given a year’s pay to have been able to have taken Lea’s trip into Holland and to have entered the castle of Count…

    Robert Lanier March 9, 2024
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Community Featured Story Historic Preservation History

The Coliseum, the People’s Building that has it all: It Says “Memphis”

Emily Cohen February 17, 2023 Coliseum CoalitionMid-South Coliseum

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…

Read More The Coliseum, the People’s Building that has it all: It Says “Memphis”
Arts Community

Memphis Botanic Garden Celebrates Its 70th Year in 2023

Community Board February 16, 2023 Memphis Botanic Garden

The Memphis Botanic Garden (MBG) is celebrating its 70th year as an oasis in the heart of Memphis. This milestone marks 70 years of horticultural excellence,…

Read More Memphis Botanic Garden Celebrates Its 70th Year in 2023
Arts Sound Board

World-Renowned Vocalist Marie-Stéphane Bernard Performs on the GPAC Main Stage

Sound Board February 16, 2023 Germantown Performing Arts CenterGPACMarie-Stéphane BernardOpera Memphis

In partnership with Opera Memphis, Germantown Performing Arts Center is proud to present Sounds of My Life, an intimate and original career retrospective of international…

Read More World-Renowned Vocalist Marie-Stéphane Bernard Performs on the GPAC Main Stage
Arts Featured Story Sound Board

“Prepare to be blown away!” TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL is an inspiration

Mark Fleischer February 15, 2023 The Orpheum TheatreThe Tina Turner MusicalTina Turner

“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…

Read More “Prepare to be blown away!” TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL is an inspiration
Arts Sound Board

Coming to the Orpheum: The McCrary Sisters Return to Memphis

Sound Board February 9, 2023 The McCrary SistersThe Orpheum Theatre

Dubbed “Nashville music royalty” by NPR; Continuing the 2022-2023 On Stage at the Halloran Centre Season The 2022-2023 On Stage at the Halloran Centre season continues with The McCrary Sisters on Friday, February 24 at…

Read More Coming to the Orpheum: The McCrary Sisters Return to Memphis
Community Historic Preservation History

Reviving a Lasting Legacy: the Grigg’s College Photo Contest

Neighborhood Board February 9, 2023 Grigg's Business CollegeThe Griggs Legacy Project

There is nothing quite like the HBCU experience! Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play a pivotal role in the lives of many African Americans.…

Read More Reviving a Lasting Legacy: the Grigg’s College Photo Contest
Arts

Memphis Botanic Garden Announces New Seasonal Exhibit for Spring 2023

Arts Board February 9, 2023 Kristine MaysMemphis Botanic Garden

Bank of America to Present Rich Soil at the Garden The Memphis Botanic Garden (MBG) today announced that it will host its fourth in a series…

Read More Memphis Botanic Garden Announces New Seasonal Exhibit for Spring 2023
Arts Featured Story History

More to Come: Playhouse on the Square History, Part 6

Christopher Blank February 9, 2023 Andrew ClarksonJackie NicholsJeniam FoundationPerforming ArtsPlayhouse on the Square

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…

Read More More to Come: Playhouse on the Square History, Part 6
Community

February Donor Spotlight: from the Memphis Library Foundation

StoryBoard News Board February 3, 2023 Memphis Library Foundation

This February, we feature Jason and Betsy Hood – donors since 2019! We love our donors and want everyone to know how much they love…

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Arts Featured Story Opinion

The tragic and the absurd. Injustices that continue to echo in Playhouse’s THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS

Mark Fleischer February 3, 2023 Civil Rights MovementMinstrel showsScottsboro 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…

Read More The tragic and the absurd. Injustices that continue to echo in Playhouse’s THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS

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