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,…
Two LGBTQ Exhibits in Memphis This Summer
Rise Up and Memphis Proud chronicle milestones in LGBTQ+ people’s struggle for equality, acceptance, and community both on the national scene and locally. The Museum of Science…
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Memphis Italian Festival: A Family Tradition to Start Summer
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.…
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Victory 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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For the Love of Dolphins
Story and images by Ken Billett Gorgeous blue-green waters shimmered in the afternoon sun. Waves, churned by outboard motors and a relentless wind, lapped against…
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East End Park: Memphis’s First Amusement Park
East End Park has a mythical quality about it. Where was it? When was it? Are you sure that it was in Memphis? Was there a roller coaster there,…
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Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People’s Campaign at National Civil Rights Museum
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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2022 International Blues Challenge: Hey, Hey, The Blues is All Right
Elijah Boone strummed a chord on his acoustic guitar and then kicked off his set at Ghost River Brewing Company’s Beale Street taproom and beer…
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Metal Museum Exhibition Highlights Industrial Steel as Sculpture
Fifth-generation steelworker Thomas Campbell melds tradition, innovation in Tributaries: Thomas Campbell | Corollary Fifth-generation steelworker and sculptor Thomas Campbell’s boundary-bending Tributaries exhibition opened May 22, 2022,…
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Quinceañera Exhibit at the Dixon: A Sweet Celebration
Passing through two of the Dixon Gallery & Gardens’ Sweet 16 exhibits – an ambitious and successful bid to fill all 16 of the museum’s…
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Mississippi Goddamn at Circuit Playhouse
In 1963 Jackson, Mississippi, the stirring of Civil Rights was beginning to rally a nation of long oppressed people. But on a particular street, which…
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