By Staff on July 2, 2010
By Jim Allman
The latest show to hit Midtown Memphis’ new but increasingly potent Gallery 210 is a collaboration between Chris Nadaskay and Melinda Eckley titled, Sitting up with the Dead. This title refers to the distinctly southern tradition of keeping a vigil over the recently departed. You’re probably wondering “Who’s passed?” According to Nadaskay and [...]
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By Staff on July 2, 2010
By J. Everett
Gallery Fifty Six reaches beyond Memphis as members of the Energy Art Movement (EAM) contribute their work for the July show, Energizing Radiance. EAM is an international contemporary multimedia art movement promoting quality, diversity, and evolution on the common ground of energetic depictions. The artists believe that enhancing their creations with energy adds [...]
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By Staff on July 2, 2010
By Andrew Moore
It’s 1962, the ‘50s are out, and change is in the air. Baltimore’s Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion – to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, “The Corny Collins Show” and, overnight, is transformed from outsider [...]
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By Staff on July 2, 2010
By Erik Jambor
Launching on Mandela Day weekend (July 15th -18th), Indie Memphis is presenting a sequence of films to provoke conversations concerning topics related to freedom. The Freedom Series is scheduled to take place in a number of different venues throughout the city, beginning in July and culminating with special screenings on October 21st-24th as [...]
Posted in Arts, Events, Goings On! | Tagged documentaries, film, Indie Memphis
By Staff on July 2, 2010
By Donna Bowers
This Saturday night and every Saturday night through August 31st the Painted Planet Artspace will host “Saturday Night Live at the Planet” in the fenced-in performance area directly behind the Painted Planet art gallery. On these Saturday nights, the Planet offers live performance art and live music plus hot dogs, chips, and sodas all free for all [...]
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By Staff on July 2, 2010
By June Hurt
For those of you who missed the opportunity to show your support and participate in the May McLean Mural fundraiser, you have another chance in July! We are excited to announce that there will be a second Progressive Potluck on Saturday, July 24th. The first Progressive Potluck was impressive indeed, so the pressure [...]
Posted in CY Community News, Events, Food, Goings On! | Tagged beautification, mural, progressive potluck
By Staff on July 2, 2010
BY ANDREW MOORE
The girls are back in town! In this much-anticipated third installment in the Tuna series, the residents of Texas’ third-smallest town are getting ready for the Fourth of July Tuna High School Class Reunion. It’s been several years since we left Bertha and Arles dancing at the end of A Tuna Christmas. Did [...]
Posted in Arts, Goings On!, Theatre | Tagged Plays, theatre
By Staff on July 2, 2010
By Corey Mesler
Ex-Memphian and fiction writer Steve Stern will be at Burke’s Book Store on Tuesday, July 13th, 5:30-7pm to read from and sign copies of his new novel, The Frozen Rabbi. Reading will begin at 6 pm.
In The Frozen Rabbi, Bernie Karp is an impressionable 15-year-old who inadvertently thaws out an ancient rabbi who [...]
Posted in Arts, Business, Goings On!, Literature | Tagged books, writers
By Staff on July 2, 2010
By Kara Chamberlain
Cooper-Young is making news. The newly coined CY Jabberwocky is a list of events in or about CY that other media found interesting and buzzed about.
House of Mews stays
John Giannini, founder and CEO of Memphis-based information and technology firm Service Assurance, made a long-term financial agreement with the House of Mews. The nonprofit [...]
Posted in Business, Goings On!, Music | Tagged Business, CY 4-Miler, events, First Congo, fitness, neighbors, Otherlands
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