StoryBoard’s Weekend Reads and other Special Edition newsletters

Weekend Reads, Mar 5-7, 2021: more on our live music venues, a look back at the Battle for Overton Park, a new essay of grief and loss

Weekend Reads, Feb 26-28, 2021: thawed-out edition, a look at our green spaces, new music

Weekend Reads, Feb 12-14, 2021: a Midtown move by Arrow Creative, a new Director at BLDG Memphis, and a Plea for our Live Music Venues

Weekend Reads, New Year’s Edition, 2020-2021: a new children’s book from a Memphis author, and the top stories of the last half of 2020

Weekend Reads, Christmas Edition, Dec 2020: gifts of brand-new stories and recent discoveries, some old, some retold

Weekend Reads, Hanukkah Edition, Dec 2020: a look back at the top StoryBoard stories of the first half of 2020

Weekend Reads, Dec 4-6, 2020: Plugged-In for Memphis live music, and Southern voices from SB30’s archives

Weekends Reads, Thanksgiving Edition, 2020: news from the Pink Palace and Arrow Creative, a tribute to Tommy Pacello, an updated It Came From Memphis, and introducing Plugged-In for Memphis live music scene

Weekend Reads, Nov 13-15, 2020: a Veterans’ Day history, Overton Park Conservancy asks for public input, and an update on #7 Vance, Nylon Net

Weekend Reads, Nov 6-8, 2020: A vision for a historic warehouse, a timeless visit with the Orpheum’s Mighty Wurlitzer, a new prison story from Elaine Blanchard

SoundBoard, Fall Edition 2020: A look back at October’s Memphis Music Month, A Memphis Music challenge, album reviews, and the return of the Orpheum’s Mighty Wurlitzer

Oct 23-25, 2020: A look at the legacy of Hi Records, book reviews, a Pinch-North Main District warning, and an Aussie asks ‘Why vote for Trump?’

Oct 16-18, 2020: More on Memphis Music Month, Arrow Creative continues the legacy of MCA’s Holiday Bazaar, a visit with a foreigner and her perspectives on America

Oct 9-11, 2020: Announcing October’s Memphis Music Month, and a detailed discussion of the rezoning of Lamar Avenue

Oct 2-4, 2020: A house demolition in Alcy-Ball marks a neighborhood restoration, a new music review, book reviews and a virtual Southern Festival of Books

Sept 25-27, 2020: Fall has arrived with the usual traditions gone virtual, a 1950s West Tennessee segregated education, a look back at Faulkner’s Oxford, the state of the store for Burke’s Books

Weekend Reads, Sept 18-20, 2020: Neighborhood walks in South Memphis & Central Gardens, Epicenter announces leadership change, new Dateline, Arrow announces classes

Weekend Reads, Sept 11-13, 2020: Travel back in time, a visit to DIG Memphis, a virtual Home Tour, Orpheum announcements, new books, new music.

Weekend, Sunday Reads, September 6: It’s business, and it is personal – how can it not be during this year of 2020

Weekend Reads, August 21, 2020: Connections, new music, an Elvis story, neighborhood leaders honored, the fate of a neighborhood church, mini-golf on the Orpheum stage

Weekend Reads, August 14, 2020: Good people, a teen’s boutique, stories for healing, 1960s-’70s school desegregation stories

Weekend Reads, August 7, 2020: Where Will the Places Go? Evictions, the future of cities, Part I of the Union Avenue Anthology

Weekend Reads, July 31, 2020: Healing through storytelling, Women’s voices

Weekend Reads, July 24, 2020: Neighborhood Ideal, Union Avenue Anthology introduction, Southern Festival of Books, Back-to-school prep

Weekend Reads, July 17, 2020: Wearing masks, Women’s right to vote, evictions coming, white supremacy, more Creatively Coping, Pink Palace movies, Eva’s Scrumbles

Weekend Reads, July 10, 2020: Memphis Quarantine Diaries

SoundBoard, Summer, 2020: Don Bryant’s new album, Jayne Ellen White & Music Hub, Delta Blues, Liz Brasher, this summer at the Mid-South Coliseum

Weekend Reads, July 3, 2020: An Integrated Independence, July 4th, Black Lives, Remembering Robert Johnson, Love List