| 单词 | Memphis |
| 例句 | Never mind my real father who begged me to come down to Memphis ’cause he need somebody to pass on that big ole house to. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z This time I took it with me as I still had it in mind to catch the Memphis train that night. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On Wednesday, April 3, King telephoned Hawkins from Memphis, Tennessee, with the news that events there required his continued presence in that city. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Visiting Memphis accompanied by her powerful protector would earn Cleopatra the unconditional respect and loyalty of all Egyptians.Cleopatra and Caesar’s journey also had religious significance for the Egyptians. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z "I was in Memphis last year when NC State whooped Georgia fourteen to seven in the Liberty Bowl," she said. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Just like the Memphis Garbage Workers Strike,” Fuller said, "it shows where we have to go." The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s go on a road trip somewhere. Where do you wanna go? Nashville? Atlanta? Let’s go to Memphis and go see Graceland.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z If you’ve never been to Lily, and I bet you haven’t, then you need to know that it is located almost exactly halfway between Little Rock and Memphis. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I walked down Beale Street and into the heart of Memphis. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If I had attempted to work for an optical company in Jackson and had failed, why should I not try to work for an optical company in Memphis? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The accidental visit of Aunt Maggie to Memphis formed a practical basis for my planning to go north. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z That night I won the right to the streets of Memphis. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Not Dallas, not Memphis—New York City, where writers are supposed to live. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z To underscore her authority it is likely that Cleopatra arranged a stop at Memphis—the former capital where the pharaohs of ages past resided. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “That be fine. If there’s no Memphis train tonight, I can just get going in the right direction.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her one close friend, Heidi, moved to Memphis the year before. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “And in Memphis they have it on a blackboard every ten seconds,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I . . “He’s right,” said the fellow from Memphis. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit danced on the streets of Memphis. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z A month ago, I mailed out fifteen resumes to Dallas, Memphis, Birmingham, and five other cities, and once again, New York. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Oh, I just like to go in to the factory and check on things in the morning. And then around noon I drive to Memphis and visit our warehouse.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “Along the Mississippi, a little south of Memphis. That’s in Tennessee.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While wandering aimlessly about the streets of Memphis, gaping at the tall buildings and the crowds, killing time, eadng bags of popcorn, I was struck by an odd and sudden idea. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But in Memphis, on Beale Street, how could there be such hope, belief, faith in others? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood at a counter and picked up the Memphis Commercial Appeal and began my free reading of the press. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why not? It’s Monday morning here in beautiful Memphis, Tennessee. Isn’t it Monday morning in Florida, too?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to Texarkana tonight and then on to Memphis.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the Mississippi, the same river that I had worked on down south of Memphis. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I arrived in Memphis on a cold November Sunday morning, in 1925, and lugged my suitcase down quiet, empty sidewalks through winter sunshine. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Those were the times I wished I’d gone down to Memphis to live with my pops. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It’s up in Tunica County, almost to Memphis. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “My mother died in Memphis and I had to go down and bury her,” I lied. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The names of cities called to him—Memphis, Wilmington, Gastonia, New Orleans. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z None of the obscene words I had learned at school in Memphis had dealt with perversions of any sort, although I might have learned the words while loitering drunkenly in saloons. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Memphis Minny get to singing on the radio how lean meat won’t fry, which is about how the love don’t last. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Yeah, it’s about halfway there. From there, you can catch another train on Tuesday to Memphis.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I showed her my bankbook and told her my plan for saving money and bringing my mother to Memphis. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Edward danced for strangers on a dirty street corner in Memphis. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z I’m pretty sure even some of the kids in Little Rock and Memphis heard stories about Lily’s own black widow. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z A fuzzy silence lingered at the Memphis end of the conversation. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Four thousand members of the National Guard landed in Memphis to help manage the angry, grief-stricken crowds. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Riots in Chicago, Memphis, Baltimore, D.C.—everywhere, everywhere, things were falling apart. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If I stole them and sold them, I would have enough to tide me over in Memphis until I could get a job, work, save, and go north. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Meredith, who had integrated that state’s university system in 1962, launched a solo 220-mile walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to the Magnolia State’s capitol in Jackson on June 5. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed standing on a balcony in Memphis, setting off riots across the country, including in Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It took Colin about thirty seconds to find the address of the warehouse in Memphis. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Memphis was not a small town like Jackson; it was urban and I felt that no one would hold the trivial trouble I had had in Jackson against me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “The doctors want me to go up to Memphis for... shock treatment...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Two hundred miles and one pit stop later, safely removed from Kentucky, they were midway between Nashville and Memphis. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z After journeying to Memphis and Boston, I went to Washington to address a joint session of Congress and attend a private meeting with President Bush. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He finished it just as the Memphis skyline came into view. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The next morning, I caught a ride with the delivery wagon into Memphis. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But Mr. Richardson grew restless with the rules constricting black life in Memphis and moved the family, including daughter Mary, whom Jones had come to love, up to free country in Alton, Illinois. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The next day, April 4, Martin Luther King was killed by an assassin in Memphis, Tennessee. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Fannie Moore, a young visitor from Memphis, failed to return to the home where she was boarding and was never seen again. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z King, who was in Memphis to support striking sanitation workers, told Hawkins that he just couldn't leave at that time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z "I used to know a Bill Biloxi from Memphis," I remarked. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z What I do know is, Hilly and her family drove in this morning from a weekend in Memphis. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I tried to figure if Texarkana were on that map, Maybe Memphis was on it too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the evening of April 4, 1968, as he stood on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, waiting to go to dinner, he was killed by a single bullet from a high-powered hunting rifle. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “They need to move on back to Memphis then if daylight is what they want.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He had traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to support black sanitation workers who were being treated unfairly in their jobs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But one night, in a railroad yard in Memphis, as Bull and Lucy slept in an empty freight car and Edward kept watch, trouble arrived. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “Stick with me, George, I’ll take good care of you and show you around some before you catch your train to Memphis.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One day my mother told me that we were going to Memphis on a boat, the Kate Adams, and my eagerness thereafter made the days seem endless. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I would tell him that my mother had died in Memphis and that I had gone down to bury her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z What to buy: The Allured/Actors single is released on 18 July by Memphis Industries. New band of the day ? No 1,055: Elephant 2011-07-05T16:56:17Z Mr. Sottsass, who died at age 90 in 2007, was trained as an architect and helped found the influential Memphis Group of Italian designers. Ettore Sottsass Exhibition Canceled After Museum and Estate Clash 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The store where he was shot, which is near Memphis International Airport, remained boarded up and could be closed for the rest of the year, the bakery’s management has said. Police tie car used in Young Dolph’s killing to 2nd shooting 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Dark Night” offers no single participant as compelling as Willis Earl Beal, the musician protagonist of Sutton’s film “Memphis,” because it presents an entirely different spectrum of experience. Two Important Documentaries from Sundance 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z The charismatic King, who'd received his first break on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio show, joined a roster of on-air personalities playing the sounds of electrified Memphis and its northern hub, Chicago. B.B. King built a bridge to the blues for the world 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Just two months earlier, Martin Luther King Jr. had been murdered in Memphis. Review | ‘The train was moving mournful slow’: Exhibit shows haunting photos of Bobby Kennedy’s final journey 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z On Friday, not long before the Memphis videos were posted, a police body-cam clip was released showing part of the Oct. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z "Memphis" tells the story of a street-smart white disc jockey who brings black music to mainstream, white audiences in the 1950s. Broadway's `Memphis' set to begin tour in Memphis 2010-03-29T17:29:00Z Seven years ago, a package of family photographs arrived for Kha from May in Memphis. A Photographer Frames His Own American South 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z In 1968, she was helping the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. organize the Poor People’s March in Memphis, Tennessee, where the civil rights leader was slain on Angelou’s 40th birthday. Private memorial service set for poet Maya Angelou 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z The studio for Stax Records, known for Otis Redding and others, has been reborn as a slick multimedia museum of the label's distinctive Memphis soul sound. Graceland marks 30th year as tourist attraction 2012-06-13T11:19:09Z Memphis and its musical hub, Beale Street, lay 130 miles north of his birthplace, and it looked like a world capital to him. B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Miller had two performances booked that night, one in Memphis and one in Mississippi. B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Echols is one of the "West Memphis Three," a trio of teenagers who, in 1993, was arrested in West Memphis, Ark., and convicted in the murder of three young boys. Former death row inmate channels experience and magic into his art, on display at Copro Gallery 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z After the original tableau was stolen from the studio, a friend of ours named Julien Hohenberg in Memphis was behind the funds for Bill to start making it all over again. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Her aunt Doris in Memphis watches the kind of news network that portrayed the women’s march as a riot. Chimerica's Cherry Jones: 'Everything progressive in America has been trampled on' 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z In Memphis last weekend, people touring Graceland said they had been closely watching the dispute unfold. As a Film Revives Elvis’s Legacy, the Presleys Fight Over His Estate 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z But recently I decided to hit the road and explore more of what the city has to offer: that is, Memphis beyond Graceland. Graceland aside, there’s a King-size array of attractions in Memphis 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Mirvis’s tale is one of privilege — a prosperous Memphis upbringing, college at Columbia, graduate school in creative writing — run through with a red thread of anguish. Losing Her Religion 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z I'm not from Memphis, Tennessee: I don't know what it's like to be out on the highway in a Buick. Sound of the suburbs 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z Six, a design gallery in Milan, paid tribute to Ettore Sottsass, the father of the Memphis movement, with totemic ceramic sculptures. The Most Wondrous Things at the Milan Furniture Fair 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z “For four years I drove every weekend between Bloomington and Memphis, 400 miles, or flew, so that I could come back to Memphis to do the weekend sessions,” Mr. Jones said. A Soulful Survivor With New Music to Make 2011-08-05T14:03:08Z My final stop is my hometown: Memphis, Tennessee, three hours north of Jackson on the Mississippi river where the south-west corner of Tennessee meets Arkansas and Mississippi. Martin Luther King anniversary: the US Civil Rights Trail 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z “A Massacre in Memphis” is just one of many Civil War-era histories, but it tells us more about our nation’s wounds than any battlefield history ever could. ‘A Massacre in Memphis’: a day of shame in the River City 2014-01-08T21:54:41Z The two other nominees for best musical, “American Idiot” and “Million Dollar Quartet,” drew support from only a few of the Tony voters interviewed, while “Fela!” and “Memphis” nearly split the votes from the rest. Predicting Winners of the Tony Awards 2010-06-10T23:18:00Z Jordan and Stewart first met at the University of Memphis, initially performing covers of songs from bands like Kings of Leon, Coldplay and The Killers. The Band Camino seizes 2021 as the year they break out big 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Telling Mr. Harris about her time in Memphis, which included the lonely and humiliating experience of desegregating a school, was “healing,” Ms. Kyles said afterward. Mining Memories to Preserve the Past 2011-02-22T00:00:04Z The ways film can adhere to lives it portrays were apparent on Saturday, as Damien Echols talked about the documentary “West of Memphis.” Roman Polanski and Graham Chapman Biopics at Toronto 2012-09-11T22:01:26Z Like “Memphis,” “Johnny Baseball” makes the mistake of thinking that if you play the race card, you automatically make an old, by-the-numbers game seem new. | 'Johnny Baseball': Babe Ruth Sings at American Repertory Theater 2010-06-09T21:49:00Z In addition to several songs from “Rent,” the program by the two performers in their mid-40s included selections from “Memphis,” “Once,” and most pointedly, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” Review: In ‘Acoustically Speaking,’ a ‘Rent’ Duo Returns 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z The Memphis Police Department posted about the incident on Facebook, which occurred at a Burger King in Memphis on Tuesday, March 30th. Domino's customer points gun at workers because he couldn't get toppings on the side: report 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z When I learned that I had to return to Memphis this spring, I thanked my good fortune and greedily wondered what other pies the city has to offer. Sampling Sweet Slices of Memphis Pies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Damien Echols of the West Memphis 3: Echols spent 18 years on death row for murders he did not commit, and spent his first year of freedom writing a new book, "Life After Death." Conservationist Peter Seligmann: 'We're all connected' 2012-09-19T20:44:04Z He recently performed at a concert at the University of Memphis and he has performed during the halftime of a Memphis Grizzlies game. Rapper Young Dolph fatally shot at Tennessee cookie shop 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z He returned to his medical practice in Memphis, wryly noting, “My patients, the ones I didn’t kill, were very faithful.” George C. Nichopoulos, doctor who prescribed drugs to Elvis, dies at 88 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z “When I turned the radio on in Memphis, there was a gospel program on. And I never looked back.” A low-key Memphis guitar legend builds on musical legacy 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Primal Scream put the flag on the cover of their 1994 album Give Out But Don’t Give Up, but this was intended to signal their new southern-tinged sound, the album having been recorded in Memphis. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z You know, he's buried next to Isaac Hayes in Memphis. The Black Lips play Name That Garage Tune! 2011-08-18T20:59:01Z Roger Kreuz, a psychology professor at the University of Memphis, points out that sarcasm wasn’t always seen as a desirable trait. Analysis | So you want to date someone who’s sarcastic? How original. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z White grew up in the projects of Memphis, raised by a family friend after his mother moved to Chicago for work. Earth, Wind & Fire is forever in the groove 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Young Dolph was born in Chicago and moved to Memphis with his parents when he was 2. Span of Memphis street renamed for slain rapper Young Dolph 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Daily Dose: TV station deals don't get the attention they once did, but Fox's swap of TV stations in Boston and Memphis, Tenn., for two San Francisco stations owned by Cox is noteworthy. Aereo loses in Supreme Court; Sumner Redstone's female problems 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z After moving to Memphis in 1947 Mr. Bland began working in a garage and singing spirituals in a group called the Miniatures. Bobby (Blue) Bland, Soul and Blues Balladeer, Dies at 83 2013-06-24T06:30:33Z Memphis: The city attracted African American workers and musicians from the South who played on local radio stations and in barrooms along Beale Street. What the blues sound like, all over the map 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Then, in the bitter spring of 1968, the movement went to Memphis. African-Americans in the New Deal 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z “I had this scarcity mentality,” Morby said, also referencing Jay Reatard, the Memphis garage-rocker who suggested that writing one’s best songs was really a race against death soon before he died. Kevin Morby Chases Ghosts, and a New Album, in Memphis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Only a handful — New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Memphis — saw a significant number of urban neighborhoods rebound from high poverty. Study: Seattle remains untouched by gentrification 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z McGuane’s small-time lawyers and bank managers, his car dealers and crooks and confirmed bachelors, are more worldly-wise — and consequently more world-weary — than Taylor’s Memphis society boys. Stories Filled With Strivers, Schemers and Adventurers 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z It will follow similar guidelines as November’s 2020 Miss USA competition held in Memphis. Miss Universe competition to air live from Florida in May 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z His parents divorced when he was a boy and he was placed in a Memphis orphanage, from which he ran away several times, eventually finding a home with relatives. Hank Cochran obituary 2010-07-21T17:43:00Z How else would I have ever gotten to see Graceland in Memphis? John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z It's part of the monthlong Memphis in May celebration, which includes a world barbecue championship. Mellencamp, Cee Lo to play Beale Street festival 2011-03-03T21:53:26Z Though its subject matter often stems from life’s struggles, Memphis soul sounds a lot like strutting. Dee Dee Bridgewater Throws Herself a Memphis Soul Party 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z And Chad Kimball, nominated for a best actor Tony for his role in the Broadway "Memphis," is a West Seattle native. Local actor Kimball among Tony nominees 2010-05-04T15:57:00Z At 15, she was hired as a staff musician for an after-school radio program in Memphis. Anita Kerr, an Architect of the Nashville Sound, Dies at 94 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Thursday during a traffic stop for speeding on Interstate 55 in Marion, Arkansas, almost 20 miles from Memphis, Tennessee, according to the Arkansas State Police. Rapper Bankroll Freddie arrested on drug, weapons charges 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z I'm going to Memphis Sunday, will fly home on Tuesday. Q&A: Nancy Pearl on travel writing and books to go 2010-12-03T22:40:00Z Tyre Nichols, a young Black man, a photographer and a FedEx employee, was beaten by five Black cops during a traffic stop in Memphis on January 7 and died days later from his injuries. Tyre Nichols and American traditions: How do we give kids "The Talk" about police now? 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z In 1978, Big Star's other troubled genius, Chris Bell, died in a car crash, having ingested downers and alcohol before speeding away from a Memphis studio into the night. Alex Chilton: rock's forgotten boy 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z Given that, what seems most remarkable about Stephen V. Ash’s “A Massacre In Memphis” is that this book is the first to document the Memphis race riot of 1866, according to the author’s note. ‘A Massacre in Memphis’: a day of shame in the River City 2014-01-08T21:54:41Z In the process, these projects are making Memphis a more tempting place for tourists to explore, local officials say. From Blight to Bright Lights in Memphis 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z “It was deserted,” said Pat Brown, who has lived in Memphis for 36 years and co-owns T Clifton Art Gallery, one of the first businesses to move to the revitalized Broad Avenue nine years ago. From Blight to Bright Lights in Memphis 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Tennessee’s top lottery official is heading to Munford, home to nearly 6,000 people and located about 25 miles north of Memphis. Frenzy as three US towns wait to find identity of record Powerball winners 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z In 2012, she released West of Memphis, which examined the infamous case of the West Memphis Three, who were jailed for murder while teenagers in 1994. From Serial to Bryan Singer: why Amy Berg is the documentarian to fear 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The glass facade of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art by Herzog & de Meuron, revealed for the first time this week in detailed renderings, will signal a welcoming storefront feel. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z An estate sale continues Saturday at Lewis' home in the Mississippi suburbs of Memphis, Tennessee. Killer sale: Fans flock to buy Jerry Lee Lewis items 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Attorney’s office in St. Louis said in a news release that Norman conspired with a woman, Terica Ellis, of Memphis, Tennessee, in Montgomery’s killing. Man featured on reality TV show charged in nephew’s killing 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z On Tuesday night the “NOW: Premieres” program included no fewer than seven new creations: The idioms included flamenco, Memphis jookin, ballet and barefoot modern dance. Review: Vail International Dance Festival Celebrates Meter 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z This brainy, batty novel moves between the 1816 gathering that produced “Frankenstein” and modern Memphis, where a transgender man attends a convention on artificial intelligence. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Garland Perry Cochran was born Aug. 2, 1935, in Isola, Miss. His parents divorced when he was 9, and he was placed at an orphanage in Memphis shortly afterward. Hank Cochran, Country Music Songwriter, Dies at 74 2010-07-17T05:33:00Z The climate that Ballet Memphis brings to the stage is unorthodox, peculiar, fresh and large-spirited. Review: Ballet Memphis Shatters Basic Rules 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z In interviews, Sottsass recalled contemporary critics writing Memphis off as a joke, while others called it an affront to good taste or a substance-free status symbol driven by trends. A museum gives the force behind an ’80s fad a proper place in art history 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z The new musical set in 1950s Memphis dance clubs picked up four prizes including best musical, orchestration, and music, which went to Bon Jovi keyboard player David Bryan. 'Memphis' wins 4 prizes at NY Drama Desk Awards 2010-05-24T06:31:00Z Price’s début album, “Midwest Farmer’s Daughter,” recorded after hours at Sun Studio, in Memphis, comes out in March, and I’ve been listening to it almost nonstop since I got it a couple of weeks ago. Listen to Margo Price 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The alleged crime occurred at a BK on Winchester Road on March 30, and the Memphis Police Department discussed details on Facebook soon after. Woman who fired into Burger King drive-thru window over wait time arrested: report 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z When Martin Luther King Jr was shot dead in Memphis in 1968, a spark was thrown into the Washington tinderbox. Michelin strong: with coveted food guide, did DC finally reach cultural relevance? 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Since Orbison recorded his first album in Memphis, he is part of the musical tradition that Ms. Pugh hopes to tap for her company. Dance Review: Ballet Memphis and Ballet Arizona at Kennedy Center 2010-06-18T22:15:00Z In Memphis, a Dutchman ushered us to his better spot to see the ducks walk into the Peabody hotel. Three women, four cities, one long road trip through the South 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Wrap up the night incognito at one of Memphis’s best-kept secrets: Kings Palace Cafe’s Absinthe Room. What to Do in Memphis 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Brown was set to appear in court in Memphis this Friday, according to jail records. Federal agents arrest rapper who was on the run for months 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Memphis soul and Northern California folk-rock: not too far apart from each other, as it turns out. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Rick Ross, Marc Cohn, Frazey Ford 2010-07-18T21:21:00Z Jim Dickinson, our favourite crazed record producer out of the Memphis area, called me aside and he said: 'Yeah, ZZ Top. ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z Greenleaf is a bit like Empire would be if the family led a megachurch in Memphis instead of a record label. Greenleaf: Oprah Winfrey's religious drama needs saving from itself 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Memphis, TennesseeArguments rage over the best barbecue in Memphis, but the field narrows when you talk sandwiches. The South's Best Butt: Top 20 Barbecue Joints & 'Cue-pons 2012-05-23T20:50:07.077Z He hated farm work and fled to Memphis whenever he could. A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z “Even at that point, he seemed to be an old soul playing piano,” said Jody Stephens, Big Star’s drummer, who is now vice president of production at Ardent Studios, a Memphis recording facility. William Eggleston, at 78, in a New Key 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The Memphis he swam to was a mess. On a Memphis street, a microcosm of American culture 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z On Sunday, the last day of the American Contract Bridge League’s Spring North American Championships in Memphis, three major titles were decided. Bridge: Bridge ? 3 Titles Won at North American Championships 2012-03-28T23:54:29Z “The state of pie in Memphis is alive and well — you just have to know where to look,” said Andrew Ticer, the chef and co-owner of Hog & Hominy. Sampling Sweet Slices of Memphis Pies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The whole nation saw how bad a traffic stop can go back in January with the killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis. My preschooler's first police stop: I'm embarrassed — but not for us 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The case of the West Memphis Three has evolved in the last 20 years from a lurid true-crime story into one of the biggest miscarriage of justice scandals in modern US history. West of Memphis – review 2012-12-20T22:00:03Z Several of his instrumentals, as well as the soul vocals “Where There’s a Will,” “Satisfied” and “Why?” were collected on “The Wham of That Memphis Man!” Lonnie Mack, Singer and Guitarist Who Pioneered Blues-Rock, Dies at 74 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Memphis the Musical and Beautiful - The Carole King Musical will lead the pack at this year's Olivier Awards. Musicals lead Olivier nominations 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Maybe even more Music City than its country cousin to the east, Memphis has strong affiliations with not one musical genre but three. What to Do in Memphis 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z And largely because of his own success in publicizing the West Memphis Three, he found himself competing with at least two other film projects on the subject during the making of “Purgatory.” Television Review: ?Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory? on HBO - Review 2012-01-11T23:08:35Z Big Star signed to Ardent, a subsidiary of the Memphis soul label Stax, and their 1972 debut album #1 Record offered a striking set of songs which received wide critical acclaim. Alex Chilton obituary 2010-03-18T16:24:00Z Presley's body spent just two months at Forest Hill cemetery, in Memphis, Tennessee, before he and his mother were disinterred and buried at Graceland. Elvis Presley's former crypt pulled from auction 2012-06-25T16:27:30Z Some version of that question has confronted us since the body- and pole-camera footage of Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols was released on Friday evening. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z “That was roughly 20 years after that incident in Memphis, and it was that historic moment that brought Martin Luther King to Memphis.” Inside Art: A Glenn Ligon at National Gallery; John Cage at MoMA 2012-11-15T23:35:19Z Sun’s story began in 1949, when Phillips rented a storefront on Union Avenue in Memphis that he turned into a recording studio. Sun Records, Storied Early Rock Label, Sells Its High-Wattage Catalog 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z She is a principal in Diversified Trust in Atlanta, a wealth management firm based in Memphis. Lisa O’Connell, Michael Welsh 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z The singles he recorded in Memphis weren’t moving. Review: ‘Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll,’ by Peter Guralnick 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Police tweeted that no suspect information was available in the shooting, which took place at Makeda’s Cookie’s near Memphis International Airport. Rapper Young Dolph fatally shot at Tennessee cookie shop 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z But South City, a Memphis neighborhood that is Tennessee’s poorest ZIP code, is only six blocks away. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Visual art has its place in Memphis — Mr. Butcher said the scene was “always on the verge” — but music is ever present. 2010-01-29T05:08:00Z A tug of war of toxicity between two of Memphis’s finest rappers, “On Wat U On” is unsentimental and testy. Everything But the Girl’s Long-Awaited Return, and 12 More New Songs 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z A few weeks later, at an open-air performance at Overton Park Shell in Memphis, Presley played the two songs from that recording. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Like Memphis, Kansas City serves a variety of side dishes, including mac and cheese and french fries. Smoke Signals: This July 4, go traditional with great regional side dishes “Someone turned the lights out there in Memphis,” she sang in “Lights Out,” a song from “To Whom It May Concern,” her debut album, released in 2003. Lisa Marie Presley, Singer-Songwriter and Daughter of Elvis, Dies at 54 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z The arrival of Al Bell as national sales director in 1965 further strengthened the label’s capacity, lending it the promotional muscle needed to market its artists beyond Memphis and the South. Jim Stewart, Unlikely Entrepreneur of Soul Music, Dies at 92 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z You did a movie about the West Memphis Three. "Your worst nightmare is to lose your child": Amy Ryan on her new Netflix film "Lost Girls" 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z He spent time as a session guitarist in Memphis, where he played with Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and on Dusty Springfield's Dusty In Memphis. Bobby Womack: 'I can sing my ass off, better than I could before' 2012-05-24T19:00:04Z As a newcomer to Memphis, he fell in love with music emanating from churches, clubs and car radios. A low-key Memphis guitar legend builds on musical legacy 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z This uplifting saga about a football team from depressed North Memphis is up for a Best Documentary prize. Undefeated: Oscar Night Lights? 2012-02-17T11:58:49Z She gives vintage Memphis soul a sleek electronic gloss in “The Hardest Part,” a song she released in 2020 that has been streamed tens of millions of times and reappears on “Messy.” On Her Debut Album, Olivia Dean Is Already Pushing Ahead 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z The tall green steel structure, fabricated in his Red Hook, Brooklyn, workshop, recalls everything from antique stove chimneys to 1980s furniture by the Memphis Group. Salon Art+Design Brings Home and Art Closer Together 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z A spokeswoman for “West of Memphis” said that Ms. Berg became aware of this correspondence in January and that HBO respected this exclusivity. Filmmakers Clash on Access to Interviews on West Memphis 3 2011-12-04T22:52:17Z In the United States, giant pandas are also kept at the National Zoo in Washington and at zoos in Memphis and Atlanta. San Diego Zoo says goodbye to its giant pandas 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z There was a little bit of destiny at work when Hall, a Memphis native, was asked to help on the musical. Tonywatch: Playwright Katori Hall ‘reaching for humanity’ 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Did growing up close to Memphis have an influence on you musically? Sheryl Crow: 'I was a people-pleaser and I had to unlearn that' 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z The whole nation saw how bad a traffic stop can go back in January with the killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis. My preschooler's first police stop: I'm embarrassed — but not for us 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z And Robin Sanders, the spoken word poet, used to choreograph for the New Ballet Ensemble in Memphis when I was taking ballet there. Lil Buck and Jon Boogz, Dancing to Improve the World 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Aimlessly touring the country as a solo act in 1969, Green shared a bill with Mitchell at a Texas nightclub and eventually followed the bandleader and producer back to Memphis. Al Green, the soul legend and Kennedy Center honoree, is still tired of being alone Ms. Hall’s Memphis roots run deep and are often displayed in her work. Katori Hall Is Named Artistic Director of the Hattiloo Theater in Memphis 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z It’s already looking like a big night for “Memphis,” with three already and it’s just 7:30. Live-Blogging the Tony Awards 2010-06-13T23:58:00Z An annual high-profile music fair and barbecue festival, Memphis in May, keeps it off-limits to the public for about 40 days of the nicest weather. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z A stretch of road near Memphis International Airport, Dunn Avenue, now has a sign bearing the rap artist’s real name, Adolph Thornton Jr. Span of Memphis street renamed for slain rapper Young Dolph 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z A judge says he won't allow a videotaped confession that aired on the crime reality show "First 48" to be used at the trial of a Memphis man accused of killing six people. Judge disallows taped confession in slayings case 2010-07-06T17:48:00Z He made his first mark in the music world with the help of his brothers, who joined him to form most of the Hi Rhythm Section, the house band for influential Memphis label Hi Records. Teenie Hodges, genre-defining Memphis player, dies 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z The 18-time Grammy-winning singer of hits like “Chain of Fools” and “Respect” was born in Memphis, Tennessee, but grew up in Detroit and retained strong links to the city. Stevie Wonder heads star line-up for Aretha Franklin funeral 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z On April 4, 1968, a single gunshot killed civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. on a motel balcony in Memphis. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z This was my second visit to Memphis to see a jookin event; I spent eight hours at the SubRoy Studio this time, and the only poor moments were when nobody was jookin. All Jooked Up With Everywhere to Go 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Growing up as a preacher’s kid in Memphis, my world was filled with cognitive dissonance. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z “I lived in Memphis for a while, so I started seeing that South style,” De La Ghetto said. Record labels said Latin trap was ‘going nowhere.’ Billions of YouTube views proved them wrong. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z After getting comfortable playing in Memphis, she’d begun taking weekend trips to Nashville, leading one of her college instructors, seeing her divided loyalties between her studies and her ambitions, to offer some unsolicited, uncomfortable advice. Ashley McBryde Takes Nashville, No Gimmicks Required 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Jones, 72, returns to Washington on Sunday for a show with his quartet at the Hamilton, blocks from the White House, where he helped organize televised salutes to the blues and the Memphis sound. Booker T. Jones, on the Stax Records soul sound he helped create 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Oliver then used the example of Verizon, which hired a logistics company to look after many of its warehouses, including one in Memphis where a woman died of a cardiac arrest while working. John Oliver on Amazon: 'A system that squeezes people lowest on the ladder' 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z That same year, a lynching forced black journalist Ida B. Wells to flee her home town of Memphis. Why more places are abandoning Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Despite several lineup changes, the band has had a steady climb since it was formed in Memphis and released its self-titled debut album in 1996. Exalting the Sacred, Wooing the Secular 2013-07-09T21:37:07Z And it keeps everything in the family: Like “Greenleaf,” which traced the intrigues at an enormous Memphis church, “Delilah,” currently halfway through its first season, was created by the writer and producer Craig Wright. When a Break From TV Brings More TV 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z On the way home, they stopped at Muddy’s Bake Shop, a bakery in Memphis, for cupcakes. Finding Each Other in the Place They Had Always Been 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Since Bagg has grown into the biggest rap star to emerge from Memphis in a generation, he needs to be mindful, even at home. A Trip Home With Moneybagg Yo, Trap’s New Ambassador 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, even though it’s a tragic remembrance of Dr. King getting killed. Calvin A. Ramsey on the Days of the ‘Green Book.’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z “If we’re going to be a world-class city, we have to invest in world-class amenities,” said Paul Young, chief executive of the Downtown Memphis Commission. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z The Union had taken Memphis early in the war, and by 1865, freed slaves and returning Confederate vets ballooned the city’s population. ‘A Massacre in Memphis’: a day of shame in the River City 2014-01-08T21:54:41Z I thought this would be a good idea and a nice counterpart to the “Memphis Blues” thing that I did, because it’s all around the same time period. She’s still so unusual: Cyndi Lauper on her rockabilly roots, the song that makes her sound like Ethel Merman, and her special kinship with Patsy Cline 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Jackson and director Amy Berg debuted "West of Memphis" at Sundance on Friday, and simultaneously defense lawyers issued a press release detailing their new revelations. Bullied as a kid, Peter Jackson fights back on film 2012-01-22T00:25:35Z Johnson and Moss, both of whom live in Memphis, Tenn., are each listed as defendants in the museum’s complaint. SD museum, collector dispute Elvis’ broken guitar 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z This week on Popcast, a look at the new lifelines available for music fans drowning in seas of CDs, and a conversation with Booker T. Jones, the musically restless Memphis soul keyboardist. ArtsBeat: Popcast: A Report From the Cloud, a Chat with Booker T. Jones 2011-06-23T17:29:51Z “Treme,” created by the same team that made “The Wire,” is broodier than “Memphis Beat” and far more ambitious, but it is also a lot less focused and digestible. | 'Memphis Beat': On TNT, Jason Lee Plays a Cop With an Eye on Elvis 2010-06-21T22:32:00Z The shooting stunned Memphis and shocked the entertainment world. Indiana man arrested in Young Dolph’s death; 2nd man charged 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z From Memphis, Tennessee, Eggleston also looks with an insider's eye, but his south is a stranger, darker place even in its everydayness. Myth, manners and memory 2010-10-02T23:05:00Z The Greenleaf family is back for a fourth season, and the stakes are only getting higher for the family’s Memphis megachurch, Calvary Fellowship. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Mayans M.C.’ and ‘Conan’ in Greenland 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Thousands of fans visit Memphis every year to mark the anniversary of Presley's death on Aug. 16, 1977. Elvis' library card, movie script to be auctioned at Graceland 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z In addition to designing the Memphis park, she is working with her students at Columbia University to develop greenway concepts at 11 key stretches of the river. Delivering a connection with nature to Amazon’s HQ2, in the form of a 2.5-acre public garden 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z I wanted it to stand in for Memphis. Katori Hall on creating "P-Valley," demystifying sex work and the art of filming a pole dance 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z West of Memphis examined the case of three Arkansas teenagers who were convicted of murdering three eight-year-old boys in a “satanic ritual”. From Serial to Bryan Singer: why Amy Berg is the documentarian to fear 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The film is based on the true story of the murder of three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993, and the search for their killers. 22 Jump Street stays top of UK chart 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z A bust with no bubble in Memphis But it's not only in boom cities where homeowners are at risk. Riskiest Cities For Homeowners 2010-07-09T21:09:00Z The next year, she got a call from a fellow Yale graduate, Roy Harrover, who invited her to join a team designing a new airport for Memphis. Jane Davis Doggett, Who Helped People Find Their Way, Dies at 93 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Memphis Police Director Cerelyn “CJ” Davis said Wednesday that she could not provide details on evidence or provide a theory about a motive in the shooting. Official: Young Dolph slaying suspects have criminal history 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Right now, many designers are collectively referencing a Pop aesthetic, from vivid cubism to the giddy kitsch of the Memphis group. | In Living Color 2014-02-14T22:35:36Z Swampy southern grooves mingle with the latest Nashville trends, blue-eyed soul akin to the more celebrated Dusty in Memphis, and, on the eerie chamber-pop of Refractions and Penduli Pendulum, whispered intimations of psychedelia. Hidden treasures: Bobbie Gentry – The Delta Sweete 2013-01-15T12:24:59Z But the carefully maintained 1970s setting, a few good performances and a soundtrack full of Memphis soul at least partly redeem it. Review: ‘Quarry’ Puts Death to Great Music. Very Slowly. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The cautionary tale of his love-hate relationship with Memphis is to be re-enacted in “Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990”, an exhibition opening next week at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Design: Postmodern, but Not Especially Proud of It 2011-09-11T13:06:04Z As Memphis illustrated, postmodernist style had huge mainstream appeal. Design: Postmodern, but Not Especially Proud of It 2011-09-11T13:06:04Z No living musician is more closely associated than Booker T. Jones with Memphis, the Mississippi River city that fostered a world-changing generation of blues, gospel and soul music five decades ago. Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Google Maps showed that the house was four miles from the Memphis border but a half-hour from Beale Street. A Crash Course in Airbnb 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “Ike was trying to teach me to play piano, but I wasn’t interested,” Mr. Rice recalled in an interview with The Commercial Appeal of Memphis in 2007. Mack Rice, Who Wrote ‘Mustang Sally,’ Dies at 82 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z That King was assassinated on a trip to Memphis in support of striking sanitation workers is a poignant reminder of how entwined the two movements were. Rosa Parks’ activism wasn’t limited to a Montgomery bus 2013-03-15T16:57:00Z Memphis’s growing microbrewery scene positions beer as shopping break conveniences in a couple of emerging neighborhoods. 36 Hours in Memphis 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z That December, Ms. Parnell and Ms. Hardy went to a holiday party hosted by New Memphis, a local organization focused on community development. Finding Each Other in the Place They Had Always Been 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z As a deal sweetener for Cox, Fox struck long-term affiliation deals with the Boston and Memphis stations. Fox gets San Francisco TV stations in swap with Cox 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z He learns that Axl Rose has been spotted in a West Memphis Three T-shirt. Books of The Times: “Life After Death,” by Damien Echols 2012-09-19T21:18:19Z Jarecki and crew began their road trip from Tupelo in Mississippi to Memphis, Nashville and beyond long before Trump had announced his bid for the White House. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z At Memphis in May International Festival, the barbecue comes with a plentiful side order of live music. Things Every Southerner Must Do! 2010-07-14T22:49:00Z And recently, he ended a long stint on Broadway in the musical "Memphis." Catch the latest from Icicle Creek new-plays fest, at ACT in Seattle 2011-08-18T23:48:04Z The Mississippi River city relies heavily on tourism revenue from Memphis in May. Memphis music festival, barbecue cooking contest canceled 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Michael Kidd-Gilchrist came up with a potentially game-saving block of a layup by Taylor, and unlike that Memphis team Kentucky converted at the line. Kentucky topples Kansas for NCAA title 2012-04-03T03:55:00Z The second chapter opens in modern-day Memphis, which was founded in 1819, just a year after the publication of “Frankenstein.” Review | In ‘Frankissstein,’ Jeanette Winterson brings something zany and intellectual ALIVE! 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z "Uncorked" stars Mamoudou Athie as Elijah, a young aspiring master sommelier from a family and community in Memphis where master sommeliers don't really exist. Netflix's "Uncorked" spills the real truth about rejection and privilege in pursuit of passion 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z I don’t even know how I am going to look for work in Memphis. “No one knows if New Orleans will live again”: A digital diary of Hurricane Katrina, 10 years later 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Detroit became his home, but Memphis and Stax Records were Mr. Rice’s muse. Mack Rice, Who Wrote ‘Mustang Sally,’ Dies at 82 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory,” the third installment in a series of films about the controversial West Memphis 3 murder case in Arkansas, has made it onto the shortlist for best feature documentary Oscar. Carpetbagger Blog: Two Documentaries, One Case 2011-12-05T14:30:08Z What’s more, Ballet Memphis and Ballet Next bring some choreography by women. The Week of the Woman 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The film builds a convincing case for the innocence of the West Memphis Three, but it might take some deathbed confession to know what really happened. Review: 'West of Memphis' seizes reins of justice 2012-12-21T16:20:22Z Huey is an offbeat protagonist, a white Memphis music-lover and would-be DJ whose mission is to help R&B cross the color line. Touring production of 'Memphis' goes all out to entertain 2012-09-26T01:45:04Z Ms. Parnell was raised by her mother and maternal grandmother, and lived in different neighborhoods in Memphis throughout her childhood. Finding Each Other in the Place They Had Always Been 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Withers, whose work will soon be enshrined in a museum named after him on Beale Street in Memphis, is no longer around to speak for himself. When Life Gets in the Way of Art 2010-09-26T03:00:00Z By the end – a gig in front of 3,700 people in Memphis – he "can hardly write for the excitement" and is thrilled by the idea that this has been a "breakthrough tour". Ian Hunter's diary of Mott the Hoople 2010-06-25T22:59:00Z In January, officials in Memphis released footage from police body-worn cameras and surveillance cameras that captured the horrific police beating of Nichols, who died after being hospitalized. Kehinde Wiley’s New Exhibition Is a Chapel of Mourning 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Click here to see furniture by members of the Memphis Group. A look back at the colorful work of the Memphis Group 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Otis hung around in Memphis until the next morning. Otis Redding’s last week: The tragic story of “Dock of the Bay” and a fateful final flight 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z She persisted in her work despite frequent death threats, the ransacking of her Memphis newspaper and searing public criticism and racism. Ida B. Wells was a legend. $300,000 has been pledged for a monument honoring her. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The teenager from Memphis, Tennessee, took advantage of these opportunities. Was there anything real about Elvis Presley? 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z In recent weeks, free screenings of West of Memphis have taken place across the south. Peter Jackson's West of Memphis: the tale of three wronged men 2012-12-21T08:30:03Z Thus I go to the “in Memphis” of "Dusty in Memphis." Dusty Springfield's sublime masquerade through the American south 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z “We would argue over the best coffee shop in Memphis or who was the best up and coming artist. Everyone on the chat would just get quiet,” said Ms. Hardy, 34. Finding Each Other in the Place They Had Always Been 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z He obsessed especially over Buckley, who had applied for a job as a butterfly keeper at the Memphis Zoo while waiting for his band to arrive in 1997. Kevin Morby Chases Ghosts, and a New Album, in Memphis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z And the filmmakers take a similarly reverent look at Memphis, shot at odd angles, in amber light. | 'Memphis Beat': On TNT, Jason Lee Plays a Cop With an Eye on Elvis 2010-06-21T22:32:00Z When Stella was still young, they moved to Memphis, where her father worked in sales for International Harvester. Stella Stevens, Hollywood Bombshell Who Yearned for More, Dies at 84 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z She sings about classic Americana subjects — love, loneliness, work, wandering, faith and death — in songs that look toward old-time country, 1960s Memphis soul, backwoods blues and the Bob Dylan of “Blood on the Tracks.” Music Review: Valerie June at the Highline Ballroom 2013-12-31T19:30:43Z She grew up in Memphis, Tenn., the setting for her play “The Mountaintop,” a fictional interpretation of Martin Luther King Jr.’s final night alive. ‘P-Valley’: How Katori Hall Made a Progressive Show About Strippers 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z "Hurt Village," about an African-American family in a housing project in Memphis, by Katori Hall and produced at the Signature Theater in New York.• ArtsBeat: Finalists Named for Kennedy Theater Prize 2012-12-11T16:50:47Z Side One kicks off with “Rock This Town,” driven by a slap bass line straight out of 1950s Memphis and a video that highlighted their distinctive look. They became MTV stars by playing rockabilly. Now, 40 years later, the Stray Cats are ready for a comeback. 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z According to a spokeswoman for Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, a senior embalmer at the Memphis Funeral Home set the tools aside after Presley's 1977 funeral, waiting decades before deciding to sell to the highest bidder. I'm all cut up 2010-07-22T08:59:00Z Presley, a Memphis movie theater usher at 15, was a screen star at 21. At Elvis Presley’s Memphis, you can snap a selfie with the pink Cadillac and eat like the King 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Reflecting on his deadline, he summoned a Memphis Slim song: "When it all comes down," he said. Leonard Cohen's new album, 'Old Ideas' wrestles with death 2012-01-30T22:33:07Z Broadway's `Memphis' set to begin tour in Memphis The Associated Press "Memphis" is going home. Broadway's `Memphis' set to begin tour in Memphis 2010-03-29T17:29:00Z An estate sale continues Saturday, June 25, 2016 at Lewis' home in the Mississippi suburbs of Memphis, Tennessee. Killer sale: Fans flock to buy Jerry Lee Lewis items 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z West Of Memphis Rest of the world, USA 147 mins Amy Berg The facts are a tangle of names and dates. Peter Jackson's West of Memphis: the tale of three wronged men 2012-12-21T08:30:03Z Young Dolph, whose real name was Adolph Thornton Jr., was gunned down in a daylight ambush at a popular cookie shop in Memphis on Nov. 17. Official: Young Dolph slaying suspects have criminal history 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z “I hung on every word you said, about Memphis, about it being sacred ground.” | 'Memphis Beat': On TNT, Jason Lee Plays a Cop With an Eye on Elvis 2010-06-21T22:32:00Z Their neighborhood in Memphis was called Whitehaven, but Gangsta Boo said she and her siblings and friends nicknamed the neighborhood “Blackhaven,” because the area’s residents were predominantly Black. Gangsta Boo, Memphis Rapper Formerly With Three 6 Mafia, Dies at 43 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z But excepting architecture, this is a fairly complete Sottsass sampler: furniture, decorative objects, textiles, office machinery and jewelry and, of course, the idiosyncratic laminates so important to the indelible Memphis look. A Polymathic Italian Designer, With Muses and Friends 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Prosecutors allege that the day before the killing, Norman flew to St. Louis from Los Angeles, where he was living at the time, and Ellis arrived from Memphis. Nelly producer charged with fraud in Sweetie Pie’s case 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Amy Berg’s thoughtful “West of Memphis” is a real-life horror story, made no less shocking by the familiarity of its early scenes. ‘West of Memphis’: a devastating walk-through of murder case 2013-03-14T20:58:23Z Another set of photos shows a collection of painted borderlines and talismanic, glittering salt piles created by a sleepwalking housewife from Memphis. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z It's a one-act piece with a haunting undercurrent based on the true story of events in Memphis in 1993 surrounding a single mother and her young son. Tristan And Yseult, Fences, Widowers' Houses: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-06-15T04:59:01Z "Go to Beale Street any night of the week in Memphis, and you feel the presence of the local and traveling bluesman," he says. America's Musical Cities 2010-07-07T21:20:00Z For the work, Mr. Ligon used the actual text on signs carried in 1968 by African-American sanitation workers who were on strike in Memphis. Books and Museum Treats for Art Lovers 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Young Dolph was in Memphis doing charity work, including visiting a cancer treatment center and giving away turkeys at a church ahead of Thanksgiving. Police in Memphis hunt for suspects in Young Dolph’s killing 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Another writer who knows about taking her time between novels, Marilynne Robinson, reviewed “A Summons to Memphis” for The Times. ArtsBeat: Rediscovering Pulitzer Winners After a Blank Year 2012-04-17T20:07:54Z Born in Memphis and raised in Atlanta, Cain struggled in his early years to overcome racial barriers. Cain compares himself to Clarence Thomas 2011-11-05T02:16:00Z “We shouldn’t be here celebrating Young Dolph in his passing,” said JB Smiley Jr., a Memphis City Council member who is running for Tennessee governor as a Democrat. Span of Memphis street renamed for slain rapper Young Dolph 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Ms. Hall, a Memphis native, won an Olivier Award for her play “The Mountaintop,” which was set the night before the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Katori Hall Is Named Artistic Director of the Hattiloo Theater in Memphis 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Hence the surprise of these prints, which were found a few years ago in the offices of the William Eggleston Artistic Trust in Memphis, in a box containing his earliest photography. Memphis greys 2010-12-03T12:22:00Z The city of Memphis, she wrote, does not protect an African American “who dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.” ‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z From Joplin, he studied art at Rhodes College in Memphis, puttered around in interior design in San Francisco, before enrolling in the master of architecture program at the University of Pennsylvania. Up Close: Faris Al-Shathir Matches Designers With Architects 2012-01-11T17:46:41Z This is familiar country structure — the road song — but an unleashed Mr. Brooks takes it from Nashville through Memphis and Muscle Shoals and maybe a Birmingham church. Garth Brooks Is Back With a New Album, ‘Man Against Machine’ 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z For Sottsass, Memphis demonstrated that there was more to contemporary Italian design than polite good taste. How the Memphis Design Movement Made a Comeback 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z With their bed-head and heartsickness, her characters can also seem to have fallen out of Dusty Springfield’s “Dusty in Memphis” album. The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z He and his country band, the Starlite Wranglers, had worked in Sam Phillips’s Sun Records studio in Memphis, and Phillips passed along the name of a young singer interested in making a record. Scotty Moore, guitarist on Elvis Presley’s groundbreaking Sun Sessions, dies at 84 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Some of the most affecting scenes are those in which Will and his old campmates reunite in Memphis, all now openly gay yet still damaged by their shared experience, often in subtly observed ways. How to survive a summer at gay conversion camp 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Brown was a judge in Memphis before leaving to dedicate himself to the TV show. Judge Joe Brown challenging contempt charges 2014-03-26T13:23:29Z In news that will divide opinion, it has been announced that Sir Cliff Richard's next musical escapade will be an album of duets with a string of soul legends recorded in Memphis. Cliff Richard to record with soul legends 2011-03-07T20:54:51Z Instead Cities Aviv, the Memphis rapper, was playing a set full of abstraction and abrasion. ArtsBeat: CMJ: Go Where the Night Takes You 2012-10-18T10:31:45Z Disney flacks noted that played especially strongly in the South: the movie's five highest-grossing theaters were in Memphis; Jackson, Miss.; Chicago; Atlanta and Dallas. Box Office: 'Planet of the Apes' Tops 'The Help,' 'Glee' 2011-09-10T14:05:00Z The 1902-vintage Winchester office building has recently been repurposed as the Hotel Napoleon Memphis with 58 crisp rooms. 36 Hours in Memphis 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Police on Friday kept searching for suspects in the killing, which shook Memphis and shocked the entertainment world. Thanksgiving turkey giveaway honors slain rapper Young Dolph 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Lewis would drive back to Memphis that evening to catch a flight early the next morning. A Sculptor Takes His Craft to the Skies 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z “I went to plastic surgeons that were supposed to be the best in Memphis,” she said. Ink Rx? Welcome to the World of Paramedical Tattoos 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z But this wasn’t just hip-hop; the RZA transliterated a supernatural creole of comic books and 5 Percent Islam, criminology rap and creaky Memphis soul samples, kung fu flicks and street hustler slang. The RZA has made some of your favorite music. Now he wants to help you find enlightenment. 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z We kept heading south, through the boot of Missouri on the way to Memphis. Along the Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z He started his own studio, American Sound Studio, and formed the Memphis Boys studio band, which helped define the funky, down-to-earth Memphis sound of the ’60s. Chips Moman, producer who helped revive Elvis Presley’s career, dies at 79 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Presley died aged 42 in 1977, but fans from all over the world still pay homage to him with visits to his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee. Elvis's 80th Birthday celebrated 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Utilizing musicians from Muscle Shoals and Memphis' Stax Records, the song contains a grit and energy that isn't on the Columbia recordings. How Aretha Franklin asserted control over her career, paving the way for female musicians 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z “I don’t have a closer friend in life,” Eggleston says in a telephone call from his home in Memphis. After a lifetime of capturing what was, Christenberry faces what is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The commemorations stretched from his home town of Atlanta, Georgia, to Memphis, Tennessee, where he died. Remembering the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years after his death 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Replacing the naïf Memphis Bleek, though, there’s Mr. West, not just a protégé but a partner, sympathizing with Jay-Z as he laments how his old students have failed to hold the fort. Arts & Leisure: Two Titans Share The Seat of Power 2011-08-09T19:00:08Z On Sunday, Timberlake posted a snap of his wife holding their son, Silas, who was dressed in a tiny Memphis Grizzlies basketball shirt. Here's the First Picture of Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel's Baby Boy 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z It may be the warmest place in Memphis, and not because of the space heaters. 2010-01-29T05:08:00Z Get ready for the West Memphis Three, times two. The West Memphis Three rewrite their own endings 2011-08-22T22:10:00Z He was admired in Memphis as a torchbearer to the city’s rap legends, Three 6 Mafia. Rapper Young Dolph fatally shot at Tennessee cookie shop 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Some of the material was recorded in Memphis, Tenn., where the producer corralled session players known for their work on old records by Al Green and Isaac Hayes. Wu-Tang Clan looks to past, future in 'A Better Tomorrow,' more works 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z It was the kind of pie I wish my grandmother would have made me, and gave me something to dream about until the next time I’m in Memphis. Sampling Sweet Slices of Memphis Pies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z A tale of segregation and integration, "Memphis" was also cited for its orchestration, original score and book of a musical. "Red," "Memphis" win big at the Tonys 2010-06-14T03:39:00Z Ms. Walsh helped get the ball rolling for “West of Memphis,” a documentary about three men who were wrongly convicted of the 1993 murders of three Arkansas boys. Middle-Earth Wizard’s Not-So-Silent Partner 2012-11-30T13:00:00Z When Opera Memphis staged a production of “Porgy and Bess” at the city’s Orpheum Theater in the fall of 2006, there were at least two love stories playing out in the room. Opening Their Eyes to Art and Each Other 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z A vision of America, waiting for us, in Memphis. Going to Graceland 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Woven into Mr. Fordjour’s work are lessons from his tortuous journey since committing to art back in high school, the son of Ghanaian immigrants in Memphis, Tenn. Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Yet Young Dolph’s commitment to representing his hometown, Memphis, remains steadfast. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Will win: Anyone's guess, but "Memphis" has a real shot. • Best Play: Not a stellar year for new drama on Broadway, by any measure. On Broadway: Handicapping the 2010 Tony Awards 2010-06-09T23:33:00Z Promoting her 100 Miles from Memphis album, this two hour-plus marathon is a soul revue, complete with Memphis horns and a performer who you suspect may have to be arm-wrestled from the stage. Sheryl Crow ? review 2010-10-13T21:31:00Z Friends and associates handed out turkeys, stuffing mix and cranberry sauce at a Memphis church Friday, an event the 36-year-old rapper helped organize and was supposed to attend. Police tie car used in Young Dolph’s killing to 2nd shooting 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z A Memphis jury found in 1999 that Jowers, a restaurant owner, was at the heart of a conspiracy involving "governmental agencies". Lee Daniels to direct Hugh Jackman in Martin Luther King film Orders to Kill 2012-08-01T10:47:44Z Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, though her family moved to Buffalo, New York, and then settled in Detroit. Aretha Franklin makes history with posthumous Pulitzer win 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Thursday’s opening program brought four works, each made during this century in a separate idiom: modern dance, Memphis jookin’, postmodern dance and ballet. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-10-28T23:41:39Z Prices discourage going solo as well; for that Memphis cruise, the cost for a single cabin is $2,995. The American Queen Paddle-Wheeler Cruises on the Mississippi 2012-06-01T19:22:58Z Not after the assassination in Memphis, not after the riots in Chicago. Avedon at Large 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The painter, sculptor, ceramist and furniture designer was one of the founding members of the Memphis design group, and his work is in museums around the world. How Six Different Cooks Set Striking Thanksgiving Tables 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Paul Charles Craft was born on Aug. 12, 1938, in Memphis. Paul Craft, Witty Country Music Songwriter, Dies at 76 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Various kinds of flamenco, modern dance and Memphis jookin enriched the palette. Vail International Dance Festival Sets Itself Apart With an Enchanting Lineup 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z During that time, Ms. Hardy broke up with her girlfriend, and launched 3rdSpace, an organization in Memphis that supports the local arts community. Finding Each Other in the Place They Had Always Been 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The boy grows up poor in Tupelo, Miss., and Memphis, finds his way into the Sun Records recording studio at the age of 19, and proceeds to set the world on fire. ‘Elvis’ Review: Shocking the King Back to Life 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Memphis officials, athletes and numerous members of the music industry posted their condolences on social media. Rapper Young Dolph fatally shot at Tennessee cookie shop 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The 1980 “Afro-American Abstraction” show, a breakthrough for many of its artists, came about somewhat by accident, Mr. Little told The Commercial Appeal of Memphis in 1983, when it toured there. April Kingsley, Curator Who Championed Unsung Artists, Dies at 82 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z And do all winners experience the same boost that “Memphis” did last year? ArtsBeat: Just How Much Is a Tony Worth? 2011-06-09T19:00:04Z Before Minneapolis, Feldman was director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Tennessee for eight years, and she was 28 when she was named director of the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science. The National Gallery of Art will have a female director for the first time in its history 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Disappointingly, the two musicals with bona fide original scores — “Memphis” and “The Addams Family” — were the most stylistically retrograde and theatrically unexciting of the season’s crop. Tony Nominations Prove the Musical Has Lost Its Voice 2010-06-11T04:31:00Z "West of Memphis" is a tale of artists not only challenging the system, but also beating it. Jackson: Film saved life of West Memphis 3 suspect 2012-01-21T18:37:09Z The art form was born after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated and riots swept through Memphis over four days in April of 1968. Black joy: The power and politics of Go-Go music in the era of Black Lives Matter 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z It, and two films that followed, led to increased attention on the case and, in 2011, freedom for the so-called West Memphis Three that were serving long jail sentences for the crimes. With 'The Jinx,' a long yet murky tradition of documentary activism 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z He had arrived for an appearance at the eighth annual Birthday Bash, a concert organized by the Memphis rap stalwart Yo Gotti. A Trip Home With Moneybagg Yo, Trap’s New Ambassador 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z The fellowship is named for Beatrice Terry, an alumna of the organization’s Directors Project who was an assistant or associate director on several Broadway shows including the Tony Award-winning musicals “Spring Awakening” and “Memphis.” ArtsBeat: Drama League Fellowship to Support Female Writer-Directors 2014-02-04T20:27:25Z “My father was well known and recognized in Memphis,” said Ward’s son, a singer and guitarist known as the Fantastic Johnny Ward. A Gospel Revival in Memphis Breathes Fresh Life Into Sacred Sounds 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z No place highlighted the potential pitfalls better than Memphis. A Crash Course in Airbnb 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z "West of Memphis," a Sony Pictures Classics release, is rated R for disturbing violent content and some language. Review: 'West of Memphis' seizes reins of justice 2012-12-21T16:20:22Z I bided my time, and then got my newspaper, the Boston Globe, to send me to Memphis. These women are some of America’s greatest artists. Why don’t they get the respect they deserve? 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Museum features a collection of images from noted Memphis photographer Ernest Withers, including photos from the civil rights movement and live music performances spanning several decades. Graceland aside, there’s a King-size array of attractions in Memphis 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Jackson was raised in a grim section of south Memphis, where drug dealers operated openly. Film: Quinton Jackson of ?A-Team,? A Mr. T for Our Times 2010-06-03T19:58:00Z The exhibition will include a virtual tour of the Memphis mansion where Presley died in his bathroom in 1977. Elvis retrospective comes to the UK 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z “When I first got to Yale,” he said, “People couldn’t figure out where to place Memphis on the map.” A Photographer Frames His Own American South 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Not baby back ribs thickly crusted with spice rub and served “dry,” as it’s done in Memphis. Southern Barbecue With a Fiery Dip and a Deep History 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Buoyed by this infectiously optimistic mojo, the Memphis cultural scene is evolving—without losing touch with its roots. Shake the Blues in Memphis 2013-04-25T14:20:10.780Z Since then, Vance has released five albums, including September’s “To Memphis.” Listen: From Natasha Bedingfield to Foy Vance and more, a playlist of songs by musicians playing in Seattle Oct. 25-31 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Sachs, who says he has a “Marxist perspective on how people live”, was raised in Memphis, the only openly gay teenager in his high school. Little Men director Ira Sachs: 'I have a Marxist perspective' 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Along with his brothers Leroy, on bass guitar, and Charles, on organ, Mr. Hodges was part of the celebrated house band at Hi Records in Memphis starting in the late ’60s. Teenie Hodges, Soul Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 68 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Three years later, she was helping King organize the Poor People’s March in Memphis, Tennessee. Maya Angelou, the nation’s wise woman 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Macon, population roughly 90,000, was once known as a great music city, like Motown and Memphis. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Memphis Milano, the Italian-born design movement of the 1980s, was the antithesis of minimalism. Memphis Milano Returns, and Takes Over Fashion 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The singer, actor and pop icon lived in Memphis until his death on Aug. 16, 1977. Exhibits about Ali, nature, motorcycles opening at Graceland 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z His reward for a day of talking about his new album with Lambchop will be baby back ribs – with the Memphis dry rub – from Martin's, the best barbecue place around. Kurt Wagner on Lambchop, Nashville ? and being seen as a redneck 2012-02-10T00:00:01Z West Seattle native Chad Kimball is nominated for best leading actor in a musical for his role in the Broadway production of "Memphis." Tony nominees have Seattle-area connections 2010-05-05T01:04:00Z But then someone told me that a curator at a museum in Memphis was working on a Marisol retrospective. These women are some of America’s greatest artists. Why don’t they get the respect they deserve? 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z “Moving down to Memphis was not initially part of my 10-year plan,” he said, “but Sarah was.” Weddings: He Followed His Heart to Memphis 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z But first, King would travel to Memphis, where an assassin’s bullet took his life. The forgotten dream of Martin Luther King Jr. 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Howard and the rest of the band are steeped as well in the patient grooves and storytelling strategies of soul, particularly the sounds of Memphis and Muscle Shoals. Review: Alabama Shakes Lifts Soul to a Different Plane 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z The success of “Sequestered in Memphis” as a single and the reception of the album as a whole isn’t the only reason “Stay Positive” remains a pivotal point in the band’s history. Their last “easy” record: The Hold Steady’s “Stay Positive” and what came after 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z To remind us that there is more to Memphis than social media posts with a hazy grasp of history, Sottsass has become the subject of a series of serious-minded museum retrospectives. How the Memphis Design Movement Made a Comeback 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The family was musical — his uncle Phil Napoleon was a trumpet player who led a group called the Original Memphis Five, and three uncles were prominent studio and big-band musicians in the 1920s and ’30s. Marty Napoleon, 93, Dies; Jazz Pianist Played With Louis Armstrong 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z “When she came back, the world had changed,” said Marina Pacini, a retired chief curator at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. A Forgotten Star of the Pop Era, Back in the Spotlight 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z A native of Chicago, Mr. Esposito was an anomaly in the so-called Memphis Mafia, the entourage of Southerners surrounding Presley. Joe Esposito Dies at 78; Spent 20 Years Assisting Elvis Presley 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Highlights: Cast members from "Memphis" and the current Tony-nominated "Catch Me if You Can," both of which played in Seattle in 2009, will perform on the show. Broadway comes to movie screens 2011-06-08T21:45:05Z He was there when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis and riots erupted along Seventh Street. Inside an eccentric mogul’s quest to save D.C.’s most distinctive buildings 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z And she explored the blues in her recent "Memphis Blues" CD. Cyndi Lauper just wants to have fun on Broadway 2013-03-15T12:43:08Z Memphis has been equally influential in redefining design’s relationship with the media. Design: Postmodern, but Not Especially Proud of It 2011-09-11T13:06:04Z He ends up enmeshed in the criminal underworld of Memphis in the early 70s. Best TV of the week: Atlanta, One Mississippi and Oprah’s latest drama 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z In August, Ballet Memphis, known for its regionally themed works alongside dance classics, opened a new 38,000-square-foot headquarters here. 36 Hours in Memphis 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The tomb is located inside the granite and marble mausoleum at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn. Presley was interred there alongside his mother, Gladys, after he died Aug. 16, 1977. Elvis Presley crypt up for auction this month 2012-05-28T11:31:06Z It’s a cosmopolitan alternative to Beale Street, the legendary strip in Downtown Memphis jammed with blues and R & B clubs. 2010-01-29T05:08:00Z Jason Lawrence Turner, senior pastor of the historic Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, has been working on addressing gun crime and mentoring young people in Memphis. Thanksgiving turkey giveaway honors slain rapper Young Dolph 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z His study a decade ago found regional differences: Sarcasm was viewed more positively in Upstate New York than in the Memphis area. Analysis | So you want to date someone who’s sarcastic? How original. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Yet even a 2000 sequel, with updates on the case and the grim fates of the West Memphis Three, failed to move the Arkansas judicial system. The West Memphis Three rewrite their own endings 2011-08-22T22:10:00Z She follows him from local radio to a TV gig in Memphis and ultimately a national program in New York. Art imitates life: Can’t bear to watch the Inauguration? Check out these political dystopian films instead 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z She comes to Memphis as often as she can. Fans, rescued miner celebrate Elvis' 76th birthday 2011-01-08T20:46:04Z Memphis’s kitsch, colorful furniture was a populist representation of the postmodernist theories that had dominated avant-garde discourse in architecture and design for over a decade. Design: Postmodern, but Not Especially Proud of It 2011-09-11T13:06:04Z Two men exited a white Mercedes-Benz and fired shots into a Memphis bakery where Young Dolph was buying cookies Wednesday and killed him, Memphis police said. Police tie car used in Young Dolph’s killing to 2nd shooting 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Willie Love told The Associated Press on Friday that her husband died Thursday night surrounded by family and friends at his Memphis home. Saxophonist Love dies; part of Memphis Horns duo 2012-04-13T22:19:07Z But they won’t be able to believe what happened to Dr. King in Memphis. Children’s Books About Black History, Heavy on Biographies 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z City officials and community activists pointed to the killing as a symbol of the dangers of gun violence in Memphis, where more than 300 homicides were reported last year. Warrant issued in Memphis slaying of rapper Young Dolph 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Thousands of Presley fans carried lit candles as they walked silently through the Mediation Garden at Graceland, Presley's longtime Memphis home. Thousands honor Elvis Presley at Graceland vigil 2013-08-16T14:28:40Z At the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, the curatorial team will be evaluating and collecting protest materials such as placards, photos, videos and personalized masks — and the personal stories behind them. This Year Will End Eventually. Document It While You Can. 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Just last week, the cookie shop posted a video on Instagram of the rapper promoting the store’s cookies, saying he returns to the store whenever he is in Memphis. Rapper Young Dolph fatally shot at Tennessee cookie shop 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z I was introduced to Buffett at a concert in Mud Island in Memphis Tennessee in 1988, while I summer clerked for a law firm there. Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Memphis isn't really a walkable city, so we put in a lot of miles. I gave my heart away at Graceland 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z His recording ascendancy at the Stax label in Memphis began almost by accident. ‘Dreams to Remember’ review: An homage to Otis Redding 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z DI: Memphis, last year’s best musical winner, is back for a performance. ArtsBeat: 'Book of Mormon' and 'War Horse' Win Big at Tonys 2011-06-13T03:23:03Z The one-hour film chronicles Geraci’s move to Memphis, where he’s working with a school board to provide nutritious school meals at a low cost. TV highlights: ‘Chelsea Lately’ celebrates its series finale with a live special Hundreds of people gathered early in Memphis for a march led by the same sanitation workers union whose low pay King had come to protest when he was shot. Remembering the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years after his death 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z I grew up in Tennessee, the home of the blues, the birthplace of rock `n' roll - Memphis - and a lot of country music. Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival 2013-05-19T14:15:12Z Ms. Dee, then 76, played a character known only as Grandma who, as the story opens in a scene set in Memphis in 1968, is preparing to perform an illegal abortion on a teenager. Bridgette Wimberly, Playwright and Librettist, Dies at 68 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Last year, Memphis veterans, cooking fans and Oscar winners Three 6 Mafia landed in the VH-1 show “Famous Food,” and Bronx rapper Fat Joe has also been reportedly working on his own show. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z Thomas and Harper moved to Memphis a year later, hoping to have a larger impact there than in New York’s crowded field. Perspective | MacKenzie Scott’s multimillion-dollar message: Art is essential everywhere, not just in museums and theaters 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The action preceded a Feb. 23 meeting between brothers and franchise owners James and Darrell Byrd of Memphis, and McDonald’s executives. Black McDonald's franchise owners launch 90-day protest at company headquarters, alleging discrimination 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z And, as seen in this exclusive preview clip, the Avett Brothers, who perform the song “That’s How I Got to Memphis.” Exclusive Preview: The Avett Brothers Folk Out for Inside Llewyn Davis 2013-12-13T16:21:58Z Southwest Airlines now offers nonstop flights daily from Houston, Nashville, Baltimore/Washington, and Orlando, and Delta offers flights to Atlanta and Memphis. Ready for Takeoff: Panama City Beach 2010-05-26T17:49:00Z Noelle Trent, a director of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, is also the daughter of a minister. What was Martin Luther King Jr. like as a child? A prankster and ‘an ordinary kid.’ 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z After graduating from high school, he moved to Memphis, where he worked at a local bank for several years before being drafted into the Army. Jim Stewart, Unlikely Entrepreneur of Soul Music, Dies at 92 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Jackson was killed in Memphis in 1975 by an intruder in his home. Donald ?Duck? Dunn, Booker T. and the MGs Bassist Dies at 70 2012-05-14T15:12:56Z Mr. Burnett was in Memphis measuring the dimensions of the fabled Sun Records studio, with plans to build a replica near his home in Los Angeles. A New Start And a Gumbo Of Old Sounds 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z The men, known as the "West Memphis Three," were freed in August after their convictions in the 1993 murders were set aside. 'West Memphis Three' together in New York 2011-10-10T19:32:11Z He says it was initially wonderful; he takes me back to the beginning, when the band had just been signed by Mercury and went to Memphis to record with the great producer Willie Mitchell. Marti Pellow on success, songwriting and sobriety: 'Every day I punch addiction in the face!' 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z She called "Fela!" a musical "as different as anything we have had on Broadway," and contrasted it to the more classical "Memphis" and to rock musical "American Idiot." "Red", "La Cage" lead tight race for Tony Awards 2010-06-10T20:23:00Z The photographer Elizabeth Moran grew up in a farmhouse on an old plantation on Cherry Road in Memphis. Photographing the Invisible 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z He was slain in Memphis four days later. In the footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Several of these recordings were made under the supervision of the producer Sam Phillips at Sun Studios in Memphis; none of them had a significant commercial impact. Bobby (Blue) Bland, Soul and Blues Balladeer, Dies at 83 2013-06-24T06:30:33Z And "Memphis in May," a monthlong event that includes a music festival and barbecue contest at a park along the Mississippi River, now attracts tens of thousands of people. Graceland marks 30th year as tourist attraction 2012-06-13T11:19:09Z We asked bartenders about the recent celebrations in Selma and talked to strangers on Beale Street in Memphis. Four women, four states, one inspiring Southern road trip 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The material on the Memphis Jug Band alone is worth the price of admission. Nicholas Ray’s Outsiders, on the Lam and Under the Gun 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Nichols’s shots of Memphis, including images of glowing sunsets and bridges spanning calm waters, tend to be serene and hopeful. Desert X Finds Roots in the Region 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z He graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis and received a law degree and M.B.A. from Duke. Lily Huang, Evan Chase 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Released in 1961, it rose to No. 3 on the pop charts and was included on the first album issued by Stax, a label that helped create the Memphis sound in soul music. Wayne Jackson, Memphis Horns Trumpeter, Dies at 74 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z "Memphis" producers Sue Frost and Randy Adams are unconcerned about the possibility of the broadcasts cannibalizing ticket sales for either the Broadway production or the upcoming national tour. Broadway expands its stage with movie theater shows 2011-04-25T16:26:08Z I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, as the daughter of Indian immigrants – my father was dark-skinned and my mother was light-skinned. ‘Do you sometimes wish you were black?’: how my child and I talk about race 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The sneakers will be distributed in hospitals and health care systems in New York City, Chicago, Memphis and Los Angeles, as well the Veterans Health Administration. Nike donating over 30,000 pairs of shoes to health care workers amid coronavirus crisis 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z To paraphrase the show’s opening theme song, by the Memphis rapper Jucee Froot: The men grind hard, but the women grind harder. ‘P-Valley’: How Katori Hall Made a Progressive Show About Strippers 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The story is set in a primarily African-American Memphis megachurch; one of its show’s attractions is its soundtrack featuring gospel music. TV picks for March 15: ‘Greenleaf’ returns 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z He went back to Memphis in 1985 briefly, lured by the city's mayor with financial incentives in the hope of revitalizing the city's music scene. Elvis Presley producer Lincoln 'Chips' Moman dies at 79 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Lola Chantrelle Mitchell was born in Memphis, where she was raised alongside three older brothers in an environment that she once described in an interview as “rough.” Gangsta Boo, Memphis Rapper Formerly With Three 6 Mafia, Dies at 43 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Love is best known for his work with Jackson as The Memphis Horns. Saxophonist Love dies; part of Memphis Horns duo 2012-04-13T22:19:07Z Memphis boy Jay Reatard was a big noise in the US garage rock scene throughout the 2000s, and thus a close contemporary of Black Lips. The Black Lips play Name That Garage Tune! 2011-08-18T20:59:01Z After serving in the Navy during World War II, he settled in Memphis, working at a dry cleaning plant during the day and playing music after his shift was over. Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley's first guitarist, dies at 84 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Her New York firm’s projects include natural breakwaters for the southern shore of Staten Island; a 125-mile greenway along metropolitan Atlanta’s Chattahoochee River; and a Mississippi River park in Memphis. Delivering a connection with nature to Amazon’s HQ2, in the form of a 2.5-acre public garden 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z She graduated from the University of Memphis in 1971 and received a master of fine arts from the University of Arkansas in 1976. C.D. Wright, poet who wrote of her Arkansas youth, dies at 67 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Given the film’s precipitating news bulletin and the recent events in Memphis, superiority would seem to be just about the last thing we’ve earned. ‘A Lot of Nothing’ Review: The Cop Next Door 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The shooting stunned the city of Memphis and shocked the entertainment world. Warrant issued in Memphis slaying of rapper Young Dolph 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z In August 2017 after he got a job in Memphis, he moved down the street from her, and a year later bought a house around the corner. Weddings: He Followed His Heart to Memphis 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Using Memphis as a lens for understanding the frailty of bodies and the dreams they harbor, the album reckons with survival as much as death. Kevin Morby Chases Ghosts, and a New Album, in Memphis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Contact Andrew A. Smith of the Memphis Commercial Appeal at capncomics@aol.com or on his Web site, http://captaincomics.ning.com. DC's film "Batman: Under the Red Hood" 2010-08-03T17:01:00Z The pair are also signed up to the Martin Luther King film, Memphis. Greengrass to direct Orwell's 1984 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z On Saturday Mr. Ross was to appear at a restaurant in Memphis in the afternoon and perform in Greensboro, N.C. ArtsBeat Blog: Tough Weekend for Ailing Rapper 2011-10-17T18:01:05Z After graduating from the University of Memphis, Mr. Williams spent time working for the city of Memphis’s Division of Housing & Community Development, then for an education program at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library. Opening Their Eyes to Art and Each Other 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Frances Berry is this extraordinary painter out of Memphis, where I’m from. Lucy Hale’s Happy Place Is Graceland 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z It is through Memphis, too, that “Two Trains Running” advances one of its central themes, that of wounds and scores forever waiting for redress. Review | August Wilson at his best is a gift. Arena Stage is giving you one. 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z “Memphis Beat” is easier to follow, and certainly more lively. | 'Memphis Beat': On TNT, Jason Lee Plays a Cop With an Eye on Elvis 2010-06-21T22:32:00Z It was only when I returned home to Memphis and got the film developed that I realized the sound was the girl hitting her belly as she watched me eat. Pictures of people who mock me 2013-04-23T23:30:00Z Launched in April, the company flies seven-passenger jets and currently serves Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Memphis in addition to the forthcoming Nashville. Air Travel News: ‘Star Wars’ Planes Take Flight and More 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Handy’s “Memphis Blues” that sounded very much like the Europe band’s vintage recordings. Review | Jason Moran offers sublime tribute to WWI hero and ragtime pioneer James Reese Europe 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z She worked 3½ years on "West of Memphis"; her shooting schedule on "Every Secret Thing" was 21 days. Amy Berg's newest dark movie isn't a documentary -- finally 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z At the University of Memphis, Abdul-Qaadir, who is Muslim and African-American, set another benchmark by becoming the first player to compete in N.C.A.A. basketball while wearing a hijab. Nike Takes the Plunge Into Modest Swimwear 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Julien's Auctions announced in May that it would sell the empty tomb at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn., at its "Music Icons" auction Sunday. Elvis Presley's crypt pulled from auction block 2012-06-22T22:16:05Z Deadline notes, the population of Memphis is 64 percent black. "Gone With the Wind" dropped from Memphis theater over racial concerns 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Kansas City, Mo.; the greater Carolinas; Atlanta; Indianapolis; Milwaukee; Memphis; and Louisville, Ky., all have sizable groups, according to the organization. These Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings With You 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z “I want ‘Footloose’ to do to this generation what it did to my generation,” said Craig Brewer, the director, speaking by phone from his home in Memphis. Arts & Leisure: ?Footloose,? Craig Brewer?s Remake for New Generation 2011-09-28T14:00:11Z Near the entrance of the show hung an "I Am a Man!" poster from the Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968, as well as Bill Eppridge's iconic photograph of Cesar Chavez bearing tools. Ferguson, Mo., police car is part of political pop-up 'Manifest Justice' 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Paradise Lost The West Memphis Three rewrite their own endings It's been a movie 18 years in the making. The West Memphis Three rewrite their own endings 2011-08-22T22:10:00Z Gerald grew up in Memphis and Baltimore, living in black neighborhoods and attending black public schools. Worried about racism’s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Each team — from the highflying Golden State Warriors to the stuck-in-the-mud Memphis Grizzlies — is averaging at least 100 points per game. Perspective | Your favorite NBA team scores 100 points. These days that’s no big deal. 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z HBO was also home to “Paradise Lost,” which irrevocably changed the fate of the West Memphis Three, the men who were convicted as teenagers in 1993 for the murders of three boys. 'The Jinx' finale, Robert Durst and documentaries as judge and jury 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Members of the Fatback Collective, an all-star team of Southern chefs and pitmasters, competed in their second Memphis in May Barbecue World Championship last weekend. In Transit Blog: Postcard: Memphis 2012-05-23T20:33:49Z The "wisdom and knowledge" of, among many others, the Gnostic Catholic Church; the Rite of Memphis; the Order of the Sat Bhai; the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light; and the Illuminati. Peaches Geldof has signed up to Aleister Crowley's sex cult OTO 2013-04-15T13:23:39Z Summers were spent with his father’s side of the family, in Memphis, where one of his cousins was dating the manager of the rapper Yo Gotti. Arts & Leisure Preview: The New Face of Hip-Hop 2010-06-09T19:29:00Z The history there, and in Selma and Birmingham and Memphis, was overpowering. Four women, four states, one inspiring Southern road trip 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Memphis, with a poverty rate of almost 25 percent, struggles with an inferiority complex. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Presley discussed a variety of topics, including a new album and thoughts about making a proper film about her father, who died in Memphis on Aug. 16, 1977. AP: Lisa Marie Presley talks about new exhibit 2012-02-01T15:14:10Z The Democratic governor said it was a fitting cause to honor the late civil rights leader, who was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968. Vets share memories during MLK program 2012-01-16T22:08:00Z In 1884, after she moved to Memphis, three railroad workers forcibly removed her from a train for refusing to leave a car reserved for white women, even though she had purchased a ticket. ‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Carter is probably best known for his poignant song “Anything Made of Paper,” which played over the credits of the much-heralded 2012 documentary about the West Memphis Three, “West of Memphis.” Kitsap songwriting legend Bill Carter | Concert preview 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z David Tate, who runs a corporate logo and merchandising company in Memphis, is not accused of trying to enrich himself at his brother's expense. Rights lost to conservator, songwriter fights back 2010-05-21T15:46:00Z Those hearings also provide insight into African American history, which is one of several reasons that “Massacre In Memphis” is an important book. ‘A Massacre in Memphis’: a day of shame in the River City 2014-01-08T21:54:41Z In the Jim Crow gallery, for example, contemporary maps showing racial distributions in New York City, Kansas City, Memphis and Atlanta are labeled “Jim Crow Today” because they demonstrate “de facto segregation.” Museum Review: National Civil Rights Museum to Reopen After Reconstruction 2014-04-01T20:53:41Z The event was so crowded that Memphis’s founder, the Italian designer Ettore Sottsass, arrived late, because his car got stuck in the throng. Design: Postmodern, but Not Especially Proud of It 2011-09-11T13:06:04Z After returning home from a brief stint in Boston and taking a job repairing Apple computers, he managed to land a part in a movie, “Making the Grade,” that did its casting in Memphis. Dan Schneider Once Reigned Over Children’s TV. What Happened? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z In the Memphis videos what is perhaps most heartbreaking, and most chilling, is the casual indifference of the officers to Mr. Nichols’s anguish — and to the cameras that recorded it. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z Memphis officials have for years talked about improving some of the areas around Graceland, but nothing has been done. AP: Lisa Marie Presley talks about new exhibit 2012-02-01T15:14:10Z To help pay for the recording, at Sun Studios in Memphis, Price pawned her engagement ring. The Unstoppable, Unsinkable, Uninhibited Margo Price 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The national tour of the Broadway musical set in the Tennessee city will begin in Memphis at the Orpheum Theatre in October 2011. Broadway's `Memphis' set to begin tour in Memphis 2010-03-29T17:29:00Z But as Stardust57 says, Paul Simon's song of the same name, which describes a pilgrimage to Memphis, doesn't even mention the King. Readers recommend: songs about addresses – results 2012-05-24T14:15:23Z Fans will begin lining up Wednesday afternoon at the entrance to Graceland, Presley's longtime Memphis home. Thousands of Elvis fans head to Graceland vigil 2012-08-15T11:31:05Z It was just a lunch stop en route from Louisiana to Memphis, where finding good, cheap barbecue was one of three goals I had set for myself. Frugal Traveler: Memphis on the Cheap: Elvis, Barbecue and Baseball 2013-07-25T18:05:28Z In his music, Young Dolph rapped about being a drug dealer and life on the streets in Memphis. Rapper Young Dolph fatally shot at Tennessee cookie shop 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The deal applies to several itineraries, including seven-night sailings from New Orleans, Memphis and Cincinnati. This week’s best travel bargains from around the globe 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Performers will also participate in a workshop on the history of Memphis soul for students from around the country. White House to sway to the sounds of Memphis soul 2013-04-02T23:37:08Z The groom’s mother, who is retired, was a tax preparer for H & R Block in Memphis. Miranda Campbell, Athul Acharya 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z His senses overwhelmed, he worked eight jobs in 14 months, then went back South, taking a teaching gig at Memphis State. After a lifetime of capturing what was, Christenberry faces what is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Dance in America today abounds in examples of inventive, ebullient African-American dance idioms — Memphis jookin and Detroit Jit are just two — but you won’t find the best aspects of this modernity in the Ailey repertory. Talking About Love, Demonstrating Violence 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z I had been following the West Memphis Three case since I got out of high school in 1993. Chloë Sevigny’s Most Prized (and Unlikely) Possession 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The concert, a benefit for the Blues Foundation, with proceeds supporting a building fund for its Blues Hall of Fame in Memphis, could have succumbed to corny maxims about the mortal wages of the blues. Music Review: ?Robert Johnson at 100? at the Apollo Theater 2012-03-07T19:51:48Z He was in Memphis to play a show on the North American leg of his "Out There" tour. McCartney leaves pick on 1st visit to Graceland 2013-05-27T17:27:07Z Of the country’s four generally recognized barbecue capitals — Texas, Kansas City, Memphis and North Carolina — the last claims the deepest roots to American barbecue. Why North Carolina’s barbecue scene is still smoldering 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Though Chicago’s soul scene was less celebrated than those of Detroit or Memphis, it was rich with talent, and Mr. Davis was at the center of it through the 1960s and ’70s. Carl Davis, Chicago Music Impresario, Dies at 77 2012-08-17T04:21:24Z The program included leading exponents of modern dance, Indian classical dance, Argentine tango, and exponents of three kinds of American street dance: Memphis jookin, Chicago footwork and Detroit jit. At Damian Woetzel’s Vail International Dance Festival 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z "Memphis," the rhythm 'n' blues musical set in the American South in the 1950s, won four Tonys, including best musical. "Red," "Memphis" win big at the Tonys 2010-06-14T03:39:00Z “The commercial galleries are real conservative, but what Memphis really excels in is a lot of alternative spaces,” said Dwayne Butcher, an artist who has been documenting the community in a blog, artbutcher.blogspot.com, for several years. 2010-01-29T05:08:00Z On April 4, 1968, in Memphis—the last day of his life—Martin Luther King, Jr., phoned Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta with the title of his Sunday sermon: “Why America May Go to Hell.” “His dream was for all poor and working people to live lives of decency and dignity” 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Moziah “Mo” Bridges was a little Black boy in Memphis who started making bow ties as a child. A new guide leads travelers through U.S. civil rights history 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Fans mourned her outside Graceland, the longtime Presley home in Memphis that opened to the public as a museum in 1982. Fans Mourn Lisa Marie Presley, Daughter of the King, at Graceland 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, it’s unlikely that Tay-K—the Texas teen runaway currently facing murder charges—and the Memphis breakout star Blocboy JB were in the same room while making this song, or that they have ever met. Our Favorite Songs of 2018 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Wayne Lamar Jackson was born on Nov. 24, 1941, in Memphis and grew up across the Mississippi River in West Memphis, Ark. He got his first trumpet when he was 11. Wayne Jackson, Memphis Horns Trumpeter, Dies at 74 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z A service station across the road had a jukebox, on which Mr. Allison heard blues singers like Memphis Minnie and Tampa Red. Mose Allison, a Font of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z They were followed by the revival of August Wilson's "Fences," with 10 nominations and "Memphis," with eight. "Red" and "Memphis" dominate Tonys 2010-06-14T00:59:00Z The incident occurred around 1 p.m. on New Year’s Day at a Burger King in Memphis, Tenn., Local Memphis reports. Burger King employee accused of pulling gun over incorrect order 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z I know the Mississippi River from New Orleans, but I haven’t spent time on its shoreline from Natchez to Vicksburg and on up to Memphis. Sit a Spell with Jimmy Buffett 2012-05-29T15:50:14.157Z After they were officially married, the newlyweds hopped into the back of a 1959 white Ford Fairlane convertible en route to the reception at Old Dominick, a distillery and event space in downtown Memphis. Love Not Lost: Two Childhood Cancer Survivors Marry at St. Jude 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z He went on to be a leading proponent of the so-called Memphis "sound". Memphis guitarist Teenie Hodges dies 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The complaint said that immediately following the shooting, Ellis placed another call and then began traveling back to Memphis. Nelly producer charged with fraud in Sweetie Pie’s case 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z “I have seen different people react in different ways,” said Trent, the historian, who is also director of interpretation, collections and education at the Memphis museum. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Daniels, at the Memphis River Parks Partnership, and Carl Person, the president of the Brooks, are leading figures in the city’s vibrant Black upper middle class. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z In April, for example, the vigorously conceived National Civil Rights Museum reopened in the former Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where Dr. King was assassinated. National Center for Civil and Human Rights Opens in Atlanta 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Born in Chicago, he moved with his mother and siblings to Memphis when he was around 8. Lil Buck Feels the Dancing Spirit All Over Again 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z He apparently stopped drinking and left Memphis for New Orleans. ‘A Man Called Destruction,’ About Alex Chilton 2014-03-23T20:31:53Z Their rock hits include "Monkey Gone to Heaven," "Here Comes Your Man" and "Letter to Memphis." Bassist Kim Deal leaves the Pixies after 25 years 2013-06-14T17:49:08Z Salinas, San Jose, Boston and Memphis have much lower murder rates. ‘Your dad’s in jail’ 2012-06-26T16:33:00Z And "Memphis" has already had a few regional productions. No Obvious Front-Runner in Tony Race 2010-05-04T18:24:00Z Inspiring but infuriating, this impassioned 2 ½-hour film focuses on Damien Echols, the most articulate of the so-called West Memphis Three. Movie Review: ‘West of Memphis,’ by Amy Berg, on ‘West Memphis Three’ 2012-12-24T21:26:52Z The hall of fame described him as "second in stature only to BB King as a product of Memphis's Beale Street blues scene". Singer Bobby 'Blue' Bland dies at 83 2013-06-24T14:59:59Z In October 1966, a Memphis pop group known as the Devilles lost its lead singer and had to find a new one in a hurry. ‘A Man Called Destruction,’ About Alex Chilton 2014-03-23T20:31:53Z Currently, New Orleans serves as the southern point while the northern points are in the Tennessee cities of Memphis and Nashville. Owensboro wants to be on Americana Music Triangle 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Brandwen declined to detail the cost of recording and capturing "Memphis" for broadcast. Broadway expands its stage with movie theater shows 2011-04-25T16:26:08Z With hit shows like “Memphis” and “Rock of Ages” Broadway is a lot more welcoming to rock than it used to be, and so is cabaret in its more modest way. Music Review: Brian d’Arcy James at 54 Below 2012-06-27T21:43:10Z In the end, Memphis became even more racially divided — a trend that continues a century and a half later, with a clear divide between black and white. ‘A Massacre in Memphis’: a day of shame in the River City 2014-01-08T21:54:41Z There's no better testament at Sundance to the power of art and artists than "West of Memphis," which premiered Friday night at Robert Redford's independent-film showcase. Jackson: Film saved life of West Memphis 3 suspect 2012-01-21T18:37:09Z Mr. Grey’s drawling, Memphis soul-inspired vocals further add to the mellow spell. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z These Memphis smoked-foods cookbook veterans bring a welcome joie de vivre to summer cooking in this fun mash-up of French flavors and American grilling. Barbecue secrets from the nation’s preeminent pitmaster-geek 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The 2017 album “Memphis … Yes I’m Ready,” a tribute to the soul tradition of the city where she was born. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z En route from Asheville to Memphis, she mulls over what she terms The Big Questions. Review | ‘Broad City’s’ Abbi Jacobson hits the road 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z She seemed happy to meet a female musician from Memphis playing at Billy Reid’s show, who might do a style video for the site. | Critic?s Notebook: The 48 Hours That Define Fashion Week - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-15T00:07:41Z Batterson told the Memphis Commercial Appeal that a “social media storm” played a role in the decision to pull the film. Theatre in Memphis pulls 'racially insensitive' Gone With the Wind 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The opening set, the royal palace at Memphis, showed that constructivsm came early to Egypt. Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z A University of Memphis theater major, Dye's early work included the martial-arts movie "The Best of the Best" and small roles on "Murder, She Wrote" and other television shows. Actor John Dye, from 'Touched by an Angel,' found dead 2011-01-14T07:25:00Z Memphis really gets behind the Memphis Tigers' basketball team. Virginia Williams' Guide to Memphis 2011-05-31T06:20:00.607Z Robert Gordon's wonderful book, It Came From Memphis, led me back to his first album after Big Star split – the extremely peculiar Like Flies On Sherbert. Remembering Alex Chilton 2010-03-18T13:20:00Z According to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the president of the Memphis Funeral Home, EC Davies, kept Presley's embalming report in his desk. Elvis Presley autopsy auction cancelled 2010-07-27T10:03:00Z Others are “First Position,” about ballet students; “Undefeated,” about high school football in Memphis; “Lemon,” about the poetry star Lemon Andersen; and “Knuckleball,” about major league knuckleball pitchers. A Documentary Filmmaker Wants to Help Others Use Product Placement 2011-10-30T21:22:30Z Yebba was born Abbey Smith in West Memphis, Ark. Her father was a preacher, and she grew up singing in the church, becoming a worship pastor by age 15. The Secret to Yebba’s Debut Album? A Big Voice and Lots of Time. 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z He always seemed more annoyed than flattered by his cult status and the reputation that preceded him; that warped Memphis streak again. Alex Chilton: rock's forgotten boy 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z The film was "painstakingly configured" from rare footage collected at the University of Memphis in 1968. Newtown TV coverage, 'Girls' win Peabody Awards 2013-03-27T16:49:08Z Darker, emotionally demanding musicals like “Next to Normal” and “Memphis” have succeeded at the box office because they are fundamentally family stories, or love stories, to which many theatergoers can relate. Blackface and Bigotry, Finely Tuned 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z Few details have emerged about the shooting of the 36-year-old rapper Wednesday at Makeda’s Cookie’s, a well-known bakery not far from Memphis’ airport. Police in Memphis hunt for suspects in Young Dolph’s killing 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z “Memphis” played four years on Broadway, and “Come from Away,” which Mr. Ashley also directed, is still going strong there. Another Go for Charles and Di, This Time With Music 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Huebner picks the music, which ranges from Glenn Miller to Memphis Slim. A Quiet Drink: A Chicago Cocktail Crawl 2013-12-26T15:36:42Z This is indie Memphis, a long way from the tourist crush of Beale Street and Graceland, in spirit if not in actual distance. 2010-01-29T05:08:00Z Producers have had mixed success marketing faith-based shows like “Leap of Faith,” “Sister Act” and “Memphis,” though none of those made thematically direct appeals to religious theatergoers, as “Amazing Grace” does. ‘Amazing Grace,’ a Faith-Based Musical, Aims at Broadway 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z By repackaging postmodernist theory in a fun, seductive form that millions understood, Memphis won a place in the design history books. Design: And the Great Furniture Festival Begins 2011-04-10T14:00:16Z Thanks to his time on The Memphis Commercial Appeal, he knew very well the Memphis of my childhood, Memphis being the nearest city of any size to my little North Mississippi town. Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Among the other Sundance documentaries that stirred up interest and noise the most disappointing was Amy Berg’s “West of Memphis,” her look at the West Memphis Three. The Carpetbagger: Sundance Documentaries Transform Data Into Stories 2012-01-30T17:29:47Z Matthews and Stanley rushed home from their destination, which was about 10 to 15 minutes away, while neighbors worked to rescue their 13-year-old dog Memphis and cut off gas lines to prevent a potential explosion. Man rescues engagement ring, proposes after home burns down 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z My brother had bagels in Memphis and said they were "rolls with a hole." Bagels, lox and schmear: Cathy Barrow reveals how to make a whole brunch of deli classics at home 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Office of Civil Rights Russlyn H. Ali attended a public forum ahead of a Saturday ceremony honoring the winners of the National Civil Rights Museum's Freedom Awards in Memphis. Danny Glover talks about education in Memphis 2011-11-11T00:10:22Z For more solid ground, the book turns to King’s widow and her brave decision to lead the next march in Memphis. Review | The lessons young people can learn from MLK, 50 years after his assassination 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The filing also said expenses for operating the Memphis tourist attraction rose last year due to higher professional and legal fees that were primarily related to a 2010 master plan that has been postponed. Graceland redevelopment plans scaled back 2011-03-10T01:44:11Z Plot A play with music about a young black woman in Depression-era Memphis who longs to sing the blues. My First Produced Play? Ah, I Remember It Well. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z The Studio D building was called Sounds of Memphis when it was built in the late 1960s by MGM and Memphis label owner Gene Lucchesi. House of Blues Studio D moving to Nashville 2010-09-01T16:16:00Z But, instead of its Memphis origins, most headlines only called attention to the dance’s video-game connection. Drake Anoints the Viral Dance Challenge 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Simon's nine-piece band skillfully navigated the swath of musical territory Simon explores in his music, from Africa to Brazil to Peru to New Orleans to Memphis and, of course, to New York. Musician Paul Simon doesn't let on if he's the retiring type 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z This play is set amid a cooking contest in Memphis in which one contestant is risking a lot. Signature Theater Sets Anna Deavere Smith Plays for New Season 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z From time to time, he would even invite Ms. Safiya to perform at the Dizzy Bird when she returned to Memphis to visit her family. Opening Their Eyes to Art and Each Other 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z The band performed eight shows in eight different U.S. cities, kicking off in Memphis, Tennessee on Wednesday, playing through Mississippi and finishing in New Orleans, Louisiana on Thursday. The Flaming Lips break record for most shows in 24 hours 2012-06-29T18:59:23Z Try sitting in the rear mezzanine for the musical Memphis; because of the overhang from the Shubert Theater’s balcony, you literally can’t see some scenes, which take place on a raised platform. Willy Loman’s Legacy: Broadway’s Soaring Prices 2012-06-06T10:45:11Z The new item will only be available for a limited time at 10 select locations in Detroit, Memphis, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Savannah, Summerville, S.C., and New Orleans. Burger King debuts 'Ghost Whopper' with white, cheddar-infused buns 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Watching West of Memphis, the sight of the men stepping into the daylight has a huge emotional charge. Peter Jackson's West of Memphis: the tale of three wronged men 2012-12-21T08:30:03Z A Stillborn Band’s Rock Is Rediscovered Forty years ago a mob of rock critics gathered for a convention cooked up by a promoter for the Memphis band Big Star, which played a praised set. | 'Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me ': ‘Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me’ Is Tribute to a ’70s Group 2013-07-02T22:00:30Z The two Bills would not become famous for several more years, but when both lived in Memphis, they liked to give each other some of their artwork. After a lifetime of capturing what was, Christenberry faces what is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z For the eight performances last season between Christmas and New Year’s weekend, the most lucrative week for many Broadway musicals, “Memphis” grossed only $746,372 — at that time its best box-office showing. ArtsBeat: 'Memphis' Box Office Surpasses $1 Million Mark 2010-10-12T22:28:00Z They were children when their 39-year-old father was assassinated in Memphis, and he did not leave them much money. Why no major Martin Luther King Jr. artifacts will be at the new African American museum 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z In early 2007, while they were still in high school, they performed together in a production at the Hattiloo Theater, which had recently opened and has since become a major repertory house in Memphis. Opening Their Eyes to Art and Each Other 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z The film is the third in a trilogy about the "West Memphis Three," a trio of men who fought for 18 years to prove their innocence in a brutal murder case. 'Chinatown' and 'Phantom of the Opera' to screen for film buffs 2012-09-06T20:25:07Z He is now the medical director at Regional One Health Medical Center and an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, both in Memphis. Weddings: He Followed His Heart to Memphis 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Later that year, Memphis caused a furor at the annual Salone del Mobile, Milan’s revered Italian furniture fair, unapologetically infecting design with postmodernism’s skeptical mixing of styles, symbols and emotional content. A Polymathic Italian Designer, With Muses and Friends 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Set in a sleepy burg south of Memphis, the play illuminates, through Laurel’s dilemma, the ways in which sexual betrayal and racial animus converge toxically, unleashing resentments and prejudices that destroy lifelong friendships. Review | I’m not rejoicing over a play produced by the Kennedy Center. Here’s why. 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" premiered last year, and another film, "West of Memphis," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this month. Oscar nod for West Memphis 3 film angers parents 2012-01-24T19:21:13Z Two stents were inserted in his body ahead a performance before a University of Memphis Tigers football game on Halloween, but the show went on, Evick said. Bret Michaels hospitalized six times in two weeks, had kidney surgery 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z I would come out from Memphis and visit him when the festival was still called the U.S. | Filmmaker Ira Sachs’s Sundance Stories 2014-01-17T23:20:54Z Presley, who died at the age of 42, recorded "I Love You Because" in July 1954 at Sun Studio in Memphis, the same time he recorded "That's All Right." Lisa Marie Presley duets with dad Elvis in new video 2012-10-15T21:04:26Z “What he did for Willie over at Hi was special and unique,” Stax Records guitarist David Porter was quoted by the Commercial Appeal of Memphis as saying. Teenie Hodges, genre-defining Memphis player, dies 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z In a lovely example of genres meeting, Ms. Sheu, the modern dancer, and the Memphis jookin artist Prime Tyme, both appealing artists of great skill, joined forces for the duet “Anywhere on This Road.” Vail International Dance Festival in Colorado 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Although Memphis has several rock, blues and other music-genre museums, and San Diego concentrates its museum culture in Balboa Park, most cities offer a panoply of tourist destinations. In Philadelphia, George Washington Slept Here — and Here 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The 83-year-old died on Sunday at home in Memphis, Tennessee, surrounded by his relatives, after complications from an ongoing illness, his son Rodd said. Singer Bobby 'Blue' Bland dies at 83 2013-06-24T14:59:59Z She attended the University of Tennessee and Southwestern at Memphis and graduated from Memphis State. Dixie Carter, TV Actress, Dies at 70 2010-04-11T20:41:00Z “Memphis,” the 2010 Tony Award winner for best musical, will be filmed next week in high definition and then released in movie theaters starting in the spring, press representatives for the show said on Thursday. ArtsBeat: Broadway's 'Memphis' to Be Shown in Movie Theaters 2011-01-13T19:50:50Z Memphis Musical Theatre West stages the Tony-winning musical about the early days of rock ’n’ roll. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 16-23: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and more 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis in support of it when he was assassinated. He Was the Visual Voice of the Village Voice 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The prolific Atlanta quartet return with Halcyon Digest, an album recorded largely in their native Georgia and featuring the moving track He Would Have Laughed, which is dedicated to recently deceased Memphis musician Jay Reatard. Deerhunter ? Halcyon Digest: exclusive album stream 2010-09-22T11:05:00Z "Most of us are overweight, diabetic, with heart conditions," said Arnold, a longtime Santa working this year both virtually and in person in Memphis, Tennessee. Santa is back to spread Christmas joy despite pandemic challenges 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Trujillo, who choreographed "Jersey Boys" and "Memphis," knows how to make a show exciting and to switch back and forth from concert-style stagings to scenes set behind the music. Review: Too much noise, not enough truth in Whoopi Goldberg's musical 2011-04-10T18:02:10Z The singer considers suicide, in “A Graceful Fall” and “Each Day of Sorrow,” undercutting self-pity with springy Memphis backbeats. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z And he aged into a voluble and distinctive public character, a roguish charmer in a kufi, operating out of a packed storefront studio, tooling around Memphis in a plush old sedan. The Civil Rights Movement Photographer Who Was Also an F.B.I. Informant 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z The “Bent” Pyramid is one of two built for Fourth Dynasty founding pharaoh Sneferu in Dahshur, at the southern end of the Memphis necropolis that starts at Giza. Egypt opens Sneferu's 'Bent' Pyramid in Dahshur to public 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z It’s a remake of Freddy Fender’s country hit with familiar landmarks: the kind of 1970s Memphis soul beat that Willie Mitchell used to provide, a churchy organ, discreet strings and emphatic horn interjections. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey’s Smoldering Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z And a Marine returns to Memphis from Vietnam with a whole lot of baggage in “Quarry.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘One Mississippi’ and ‘Quarry’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z He quit his ensemble role in “Memphis” on Broadway in order to make YouTube videos. What happens when your whimsical ‘Wizard of Oz’ obsession actually pays off? 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z The 36-year-old rapper was born in Chicago as Adolph Thornton Jr., and moved to Memphis when he was 2, according to The Commercial Appeal. Rapper Young Dolph fatally shot at Tennessee cookie shop 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Memphis rewards localism and loyalty — Hi Records is still open today — but there is also room for renewal. 2010-01-29T05:08:00Z In the South, emboldened white mobs descended on Black people, perpetrating the 1866 massacres in Memphis and New Orleans. When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z "CSX personnel are working with first responders to meet the needs of those injured. A train was en route from Memphis to Savannah when the incident occurred." Film crew member killed by train 2014-02-21T13:19:49Z One story he told me after we were back in touch, was that, two years later, he was in Memphis, Tenn., I think. What She Learned From the One Who Got Away 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Lil Buck was born in Chicago, but he and his six siblings moved to Memphis when he was young. There's Madonna, Marsalis, Colbert and more: Why everyone is jookin with Lil Buck 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Now Memphis is a Blaxploitation cartoon who can be distractingly flamboyant, as when he hijacks one of Queen’s key scenes by preening barechested. ‘The Life’ Review: Turning More Than a Few New Tricks 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z His first and most successful single, “Walking in Memphis,” from 1991, unfolds as a checklist of that city’s musical touchstones, from W. C. Handy to the Rev. Al Green. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Rick Ross, Marc Cohn, Frazey Ford 2010-07-18T21:21:00Z “Million Dollar Quartet” has a pleasing modesty, taking place as it does on a single afternoon, Dec. 4, 1956, in the rattletrap recording studio of Sun Records in Memphis. | 'Million Dollar Quartet': On Broadway With Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Company 2010-04-12T02:19:00Z Evidence found in the Mercedes when it was located in a Memphis neighborhood Saturday tied the car to both shootings, Howell said. Police tie car used in Young Dolph’s killing to 2nd shooting 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z The record features two covers of ballads, “My Happiness” and “That’s Where Your Heartaches Begin,” and was recorded by an 18-year-old Presley in Memphis three years before his breakout single, “Heartbreak Hotel.” Jack White to Release Elvis’s First Recording 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Presley, who grew up between her father's estate, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee and Beverly Hills, California, found her voice away from American soil in the green suburban county of Sussex in England. After storm, Lisa Marie Presley finds grace in new album 2012-05-21T02:31:42Z She said the clown that insulted her in front of her children in Memphis was white. The Last of the Dunk Tank Clowns 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Baker’s chillingly honest navigation of depression and substance abuse issues while growing up a queer Christian woman in Memphis isn’t exactly day one turn-up fodder. Daily guide to Sasquatch! 2018: Artists to watch beyond the big names 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z While North Shore is days away from reopening, the idea of developing new musicals — another “Memphis,” say — is on his mind. A Second Chance for North Shore Music Theater 2010-07-02T08:20:00Z After serving in the Army and marrying his first wife, Martha Denton, Mr. King, then 22, went to seek him out in Memphis, looking for work. B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Thompson, raised in Memphis, said he joined the Navy at 17 and spent most of his stint playing baseball in California and writing for a military newspaper. Seattle Opera’s new production tells the stories of soldiers — and features a chorus of local veterans 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z His grandparents fled China for Vietnam in the 1930s, and then his parents fled Vietnam in 1983, spending eight months at sea, before settling in Memphis, where Kha was born. A Photographer Frames His Own American South 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z It’s an arc that originated in Memphis and today is a magnet for a chunk of the tourism and entertainment dollars that flow through the city. Museum celebrates rock ‘n’ roll milestone 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z The exhibition catalog says organizers began with 1985 because that's about when the postmodern design group Memphis dissolved, marked a turning point in European design. Milwaukee museum looks at everyday objects as art 2010-10-10T19:25:00Z I aim to bring a classic regional side from one of America’s four barbecue capitals: North Carolina, Memphis, Kansas City and Texas. Smoke Signals: This July 4, go traditional with great regional side dishes It was her mother, who grew up around the corner from the Lorraine motel in Memphis where Martin Luther King was shot, who inspired her to write the play. Katori Hall: 'I've had two hours sleep!' 2010-03-23T21:30:00Z The Peabody Memphis Hotel, a staple of old-school good taste, has been recently refurbished. What to Do in Memphis 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Especially in New Orleans and Memphis, we chatted with people around us everywhere we went. Three women, four cities, one long road trip through the South 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Vardaman, about 140 miles south of Memphis, is known as the world’s sweet potato capital. When Only Homegrown Sweet Potatoes Will Do 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z ‘Memphis’ Film Is Planned A film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical "Memphis" is in the works. ArtsBeat: 'Memphis' Film Is Planned 2012-10-15T00:02:01Z Dupree, who went on to be a studio player, played guitar on "Respect" by Franklin, "Rainy Night in Georgia" by Brook Benton and "Memphis Soul Stew" by King Curtis. Guitarist for R&B, jazz greats dies in Fort Worth 2011-05-12T16:49:25Z After the movie’s release the action shifts to a Memphis courtroom, so we get amateurish acting, plus ropey Tennessee accents, plus some of the deadliest wigs ever placed on human heads. | 'The Deep Throat Sex Scandal': Trials Caused by a Pornographic Film Are Brought to Life 2010-10-11T21:13:00Z Two ambitious new projects by leading architecture firms are at the forefront of the renaissance, using design to lift Memphis’s image in the eyes of its citizens and the outside world. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Hardy proposed to Ms. Parnell on Jan. 23, 2021, the couple’s fifth anniversary, in front of the Levitt Shell, an amphitheater in Memphis. Finding Each Other in the Place They Had Always Been 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z “Memphis” tells the story of one African American family, the Norths, across three matrilineal generations, the narrative divided among the perspectives of the family’s matriarch, Hazel; her daughters, Miriam and August; and her granddaughter Joan. ‘Memphis’ Is a Rhapsodic Hymn to Black Women 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z She applies raw emotion and elastic pipes to renditions of such classics as Muddy Waters' "Rollin' and Tumblin' "; Little Walter's "Just Your Fool"; and Memphis Slim's "Mother Earth." Cyndi Lauper will be singing the blues at Woodland Park Zoo 2010-08-31T20:58:00Z “Someone had seen a poster in Memphis for a barbecue competition,” Wade Lawrence, the museum’s director, told Hudson Valley Magazine at the time, explaining one of the inspirations for the exhibition. Arnold Skolnick, Whose Poster Embodied Woodstock, Dies at 85 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z There had been nothing quite as disruptive in the design world as the Memphis collective since Walter Gropius opened the doors of the Bauhaus over a half-century earlier. How the Memphis Design Movement Made a Comeback 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z As songwriter and musician Chuck Prophet writes in his recent liner notes to the vinyl re-issue of "Dusty in Memphis," “Legend has it Dusty never washed off her old mascara, she simply applied more everyday.” Dusty Springfield's sublime masquerade through the American south 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Was it when Ugly Sweater 5K runs became regular events, like those this fall in cities like Memphis, Chicago and Denver? Cultural Studies: Ugly Holiday Sweaters Are All the Rage – Cultural Studies 2012-12-14T22:23:35Z But in the past decade, he returned to Memphis as often as he could to make work. A Photographer Frames His Own American South 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Later, the only roadway from Memphis to Jackson passed directly through Bentonia, furthering its popularity. In Mississippi, small-town bluesman keeps aging music alive 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Musk also opened an outpost of his more upscale Kitchen restaurant inside a 4,500-acre urban park called Shelby Farms in the center of Memphis. Kimbal Musk Wants to Feed America, Silicon Valley-Style 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The Frontmen of Country leaned heavily on songs that mentioned bucolic Southern settings: “God Blessed Texas,” “Amy’s Back in Austin,” “Walking in Memphis.” Concert for Trump Misses an Opportunity 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z "I literally thought they were in Memphis, going out every night eating barbecue and partying." Exile on Main St 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z Covington police are working with Memphis authorities and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation on the search for the suspects, who are believed to be from the Memphis area, Howell said. Police tie car used in Young Dolph’s killing to 2nd shooting 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z As Kentucky struggled to hit shots in the remaining minutes, Kansas closed to within 62-57 with 1:57 remaining, resurfacing memories of Calipari’s Memphis team that collapsed in 2008 to Kansas. Kentucky topples Kansas for NCAA title 2012-04-03T03:55:00Z Even though there have been no new Memphis designs since 1989, the company is still in business and manufacturing the original pieces. How the Memphis Design Movement Made a Comeback 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Billboard: What were your priorities for the recording process in Memphis, to create the record you wanted? Cyndi Lauper realizes longtime dream with "Blues" 2010-06-18T20:54:00Z To his ear, it rang like the “I Am A Man” slogan declared by black sanitation marchers at the strike in Memphis that King helped to lead on the eve of his death. This powerful image perfectly captures how divided America was when MLK died 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z In the early 2010s he moved them to a studio in downtown Memphis, where they sat until Bible & Tire, a label that focuses on gospel and soul, bought the catalog. A Gospel Revival in Memphis Breathes Fresh Life Into Sacred Sounds 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z "Memphis" and "La Cage aux Folles" top the 60th annual Outer Critics Circle awards honoring the best in Broadway and off-Broadway theater, with each winning four awards. `Memphis,' `Cage' top Outer Critics Circle winners 2010-05-17T15:46:00Z Where, when, why: We took a road trip from New Orleans to Memphis, Nashville and Asheville, N.C., then back to Silver Spring last April 3 to 13. Three women, four cities, one long road trip through the South 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s buffalo fish, which I grew up cooking on Friday nights with my grandmother outside of Memphis. A new guide leads travelers through U.S. civil rights history 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z In Memphis, he pursued a completely different career in stained glass. On Set with Celebrity Photographer Jack Robinson 2012-01-18T15:18:12Z "West of Memphis" is nonfiction filmmaking at its best, a film with a fierce point of view yet one that doesn't pretend to have all the answers or a monopoly on truth. Review: 'West of Memphis' seizes reins of justice 2012-12-21T16:20:22Z Her upbringing in Dallas and Memphis helped instill in her a deep appreciation of the blues. Kay Starr, ferociously expressive singer who had pop hit with ‘Wheel of Fortune,’ dies at 94 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Buck grew up to become a star of jookin, a street dance form native to Memphis, where Buck was raised. Lil Buck Feels the Dancing Spirit All Over Again 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z When his hearse drove through Memphis for the funeral the day after that, many more thousands—half a million, some guessed—stood on the streets. He’ll Always Be Elvis: Remembering the 'King' 40 Years on 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Her mother doesn’t sing but works for a white man in Memphis, cleaning his house. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: No Exit 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Phillips opened the Memphis Recording Service, as it was first called, so that black artists would have a place to record. Review: ‘Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll,’ by Peter Guralnick 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z “Memphis defined my life,” he said, “but I was always so busy.” Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z “Downtown Memphis is never going to feel like downtown Nashville,” Wigginton said. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z By the time we emerged back into the auditorium, dancers from the musical “Memphis” had begun a number, and Linney stood rapt while they whirled and tumbled for all they were worth. The Age of Laura Linney 2010-07-28T20:52:00Z I was friends with Lisa Marie Presley, and at one point I was in Memphis and I was all set to go. Billy Corgan Loves an Old-Fashioned American Story 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Reflecting on his deadline, he summoned a Memphis Slim song: “When it all comes down,” he said. Arts & Leisure: Leonard Cohen Reckons With God in ?Old Ideas? 2012-01-27T16:00:00Z But the two ultimately decided that the distance between them back then — she was living in Austin, Texas, and he in Memphis — made a relationship untenable. It Was One Sign After Another 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z They were inspired, first, by Paradise Lost, the celebrated documentary about the West Memphis Three, and second by the philosophical principle of Occam’s razor, which posits that the simplest approach is usually the best. 'It's like a labyrinth': Netflix's new true crime doc takes on the pizza bomber 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z If you do plan a trip to Memphis, check out these suggestions on what to pack from our Wirecutter team. 36 Hours in Memphis 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The transformation of so many forbidding spaces was an inspiration to José Velázquez, the former executive director of Latino Memphis, an advocacy group. From Blight to Bright Lights in Memphis 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z He made his breakthrough as a songwriter when he moved from Memphis to Nashville in 1975 and began publishing his own work. Paul Craft, Witty Country Music Songwriter, Dies at 76 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Many whites left Memphis following a yellow-fever epidemic in the late 1870s, and Church took advantage by investing in real estate. On a Memphis street, a microcosm of American culture 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Work has already begun on the Danish tribute to the King, with the first bricks laid more than 5,000 miles from Memphis. Elvis Presley's Graceland to be replicated in Denmark 2010-06-17T10:41:00Z “Real independent Memphis rapper born in chicago. loved by millions of ppl.” Police in Memphis hunt for suspects in Young Dolph’s killing 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z King’s Blues Club in Memphis over the loud music and a very large table of Kentucky fans. Three women, four cities, one long road trip through the South 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z “Walk Through Fire” was praised for its fusion of Memphis soul and Nashville country, fueled by Yola’s powerhouse voice. After Two Decades in Music, Yola Expands Her Powers 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z A film adaptation of another popular Broadway musical, “Jersey Boys,” was announced last week, while a taping of the musical “Memphis” has been shown in movie theaters and will be broadcast on PBS next month. ?War Horse? Stage and Screen Versions Help Each Other 2012-01-19T23:28:29Z Inside the chapel, behind the podium, is a four-foot cross made from bricks from the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Issues began at Golf and Games Family Park in Memphis, Tenn., Saturday evening when some machines began swallowing money. Police called after 300 teenagers destroy family fun center over faulty machines 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z He and the two other boys, the West Memphis Three, were on death row for many years after they were wrongfully accused. Chloë Sevigny’s Most Prized (and Unlikely) Possession 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z After the Hombres' career slowed, Cunningham went to work behind the scenes at the famed Sounds of Memphis Studios. Member of Jerry Lee Lewis band killed in shootout 2012-10-15T00:21:11Z Jack Henderson Clement was born on April 5, 1931, in Memphis, where his father was a choir director and worked in a jewelry store. ‘Cowboy’ Jack Clement, country-music icon, dies at 82 2013-08-09T05:47:51Z Playwright Katori Hall's fictional drama set in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on the night before the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began performances Sept. 'The Mountaintop' recoups its capitalization 2012-01-18T23:01:04Z World War II was still raging when “The Memphis Belle,” William Wyler’s documentary about the crew of an American bomber, was released in 1944. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Cold Blue’ and D-Day Stories 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Burch said she got some inspiration from the Memphis design movement from the 1980’s, that focused on postmodern decor featuring abstract and asymmetrical shapes and bright colors. Tory Burch mixes daywear and sportswear for luxury line 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z "Memphis": The return of a show inspired by a white Southern deejay who helped bring black music into the pop mainstream. 'Addams Family,' 'Elf' in 5th Avenue's new season 2012-03-02T23:10:04Z He produced the psychobilly band the Cramps and played with the experimental Memphis band Panther Burns. Alex Chilton obituary 2010-03-18T16:24:00Z “I think it would be amazing if Memphis became a destination for people interested in the art of the African diaspora,” she said. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z The long, patient opening shot floats through battered, beautiful streets as a fado — the passionate music that is to this city what blues is to Memphis — plays underneath. | 'The Portuguese Nun': On the Streets of Lisbon, Love, Romance and Desire 2010-10-21T23:13:00Z Even Mark Sanchez, the quarterback of the New York Jets and a musical theater aficionado, put in an appearance to introduce a production number from “Memphis.” ?Red? and ?Memphis? Win Top Tony Awards 2010-06-14T04:10:00Z They moved in to an apartment together a couple of weeks later, and about a year after that, into their current home in Memphis. Opening Their Eyes to Art and Each Other 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z He continued to release material at a steady clip until 1981's "Talk Memphis," after which he took a seven-year break from recording. Singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester dead at 69 2014-04-12T04:58:02Z The grant will allow University of Memphis professors Ryan Parish, David Dye and Ying Sing Li to analyze artifacts from central Tennessee. Univ. of Memphis gets grant for study of artifacts 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z She enrolled at Memphis State College, now the University of Memphis, with plans to become an obstetrician. Stella Stevens, Hollywood Bombshell Who Yearned for More, Dies at 84 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The group previously produced “Memphis” on Broadway, after a successful tryout run at the 5th Avenue. ‘First Date’ gets a shot at Broadway 2013-03-08T19:03:33Z Here Sottsass, as in his other Memphis pieces, achieves a new friction between form and function, while slyly merging painting, sculpture and furniture with the spirit of architecture. A Polymathic Italian Designer, With Muses and Friends 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z She has walked the park with people from Memphis, Atlanta, Chicago and elsewhere. After High Line?s Success, Other Cities Look Up 2010-07-14T15:54:00Z I found it in the Dixon Gallery & Gardens, located in East Memphis. Graceland aside, there’s a King-size array of attractions in Memphis 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The show, which follows the personal dramas and questionable ethics of a family at the center of a Memphis, Tennessee, megachurch, is set to premiere next month on Winfrey's OWN network. Winfrey explores megachurch drama in OWN drama 'Greenleaf' 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The closest he ever came to a hit of his own was “Talk Memphis,” which reached No. 32 in 1981. Jesse Winchester, a songwriter’s songwriter 2014-04-15T17:43:59Z Memphis music resounds from downtown’s Beale Street, lined with blues clubs, to venues across town devoted to diverse genres. 36 Hours in Memphis 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z “I expect you to feel what the Nichols family feels,” Cerelyn Davis, the Memphis police chief, said in anticipation of the video’s impact. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z It was more peculiar since I was joined by my friend Nazia, a Memphis transplant, who does wear a scarf. A Muslim American’s Homecoming: Cowboys, Country Music, Chapatis 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Prince Albert of Monaco and his fiancee visited the home of the "King of Rock 'N' Roll" and sampled some barbecue during a vacation stop in Memphis. Prince Albert of Monaco visits the King of Rock 2010-08-06T02:01:00Z That generic pop-gospel anthem from the Broadway musical “Memphis” belongs in the same category as Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is.” Music Review: Pop, Soul and Show Tunes in a Quest for Lifelong Love 2011-02-23T23:01:06Z Scenes like this play out daily at the Stax Music Academy, an after-school program where teenagers from some of Memphis' poorest neighborhoods learn how to dance, sing and play instruments. Stax's past influences future musicians in Memphis 2013-05-16T08:52:09Z Next year, it will pull into Tampa, Fla.; Detroit; Memphis, Tenn.; Minneapolis and Costa Mesa, Calif. More dates are to be announced later. Million Dollar Quartet' rocks and rolls onward 2011-03-18T13:01:03Z The families traveled from Poland and joined the first group of refugees – made up of four young cancer patients and their 14 family members – who arrived in Memphis on March 21. Second group of young Ukrainian cancer patients brought safely to US 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z I grew up in Memphis with a faint tantalizing aroma emanating from my father’s whiskey glass. Exploring Kentucky Bourbon at Its Source 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z When Dr. King was murdered in Memphis, the Staples instantly recognized the Lorraine Motel in news photographs. Books of The Times: ‘I’ll Take You There,’ by Greg Kot 2014-02-20T13:00:01Z “Remember Memphis” derives from a vacation, full of joy and promise, that Sarah and I took to America’s capital of rock ‘n’ roll. Engagement season panic sets in: Before you plan a big expensive traditional wedding, read this 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Young Dolph, whose real name was Adolph Johnston Jr., had been in his hometown of Memphis to participate in Thanksgiving turkey giveaways and visit a cancer center. Police tie car used in Young Dolph’s killing to 2nd shooting 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z I came from a generation that grew up on the West Memphis Three documentaries and identified with those kids. Chloë Sevigny’s Most Prized (and Unlikely) Possession 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z It was on this trip to Memphis, Ms. Safiya said, when she realized she was ready to try something formal with Mr. Williams. Opening Their Eyes to Art and Each Other 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Alongside Motown in Detroit and Stax in Memphis, the Philadelphia sound was a pillar of soul and R&B music in the 1960s and ’70s. William Hart, Driving Force Behind the Delfonics, Dies at 77 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z “Memphis” grossed more than $1 million for the standard eight performances for the first time since previews began on Sept. ArtsBeat: 'Memphis' Box Office Surpasses $1 Million Mark 2010-10-12T22:28:00Z Organs exhale Memphis soul, three electric guitars scream in consortium, pedal-steel accents chirp and beats rumble. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z He later sold it to Mid-South Community College, choosing the West Memphis school because he says he “wanted it in the right hands.” News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z In part, Crow says, "Memphis" is inspired by the course of a full life well lived, and an acknowledgement that with wisdom comes a new creative perspective. Sheryl Crow finds new groove as "Memphis" belle 2010-07-24T01:55:00Z Musicians passing through Memphis continued to visit the store, often just to hear her grandfather tell stories about Presley, Ms. Lansky said. Bernard Lansky, Clothier to Music Royalty, Dies at 85 2012-11-17T05:58:27Z Her mother, the former Elizabeth Foster-Johnson, an American from Memphis whom the count met on a vacation, was devoted to her daughter’s career. Betsy von Furstenberg, Baroness and Versatile Actress, Dies at 83 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z In Memphis they're sitting in shadowy bars listening to the soulful plucking of a six string guitar. America's Musical Cities 2010-07-07T21:20:00Z For years, the photographer Tommy Kha hardly spoke to his mother, except for the occasional times they made portraits together at home in Memphis, Tenn. At times, the distance grew, turning mean. A Photographer Frames His Own American South 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z “He drove — in a manner many people familiar with Memphis will recognize — slowly, drifting right.” The Civil Rights Movement Photographer Who Was Also an F.B.I. Informant 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Moman, a fixture for decades in the Southern music scene, hitchhiked from Georgia to Memphis as a teenager and worked at the fledging Stax Records in the 1950s. Chips Moman, producer who helped revive Elvis Presley’s career, dies at 79 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z What happens next for the West Memphis Three remains to be seen, though the fight to clear their names goes on. The West Memphis Three rewrite their own endings 2011-08-22T22:10:00Z Wells, who was born a slave in 1862 in Mississippi, was a 30-year-old newspaper editor in Memphis, Tennessee, when she began her campaign lynching. Monument to activist, journalist Ida B. Wells unveiled 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z The film centers mainly on Valeti as he works to get Upside — originally Memphis Meats, as it’s called throughout the documentary — off the ground. ‘Meat the Future’ Review: The Growth of a ‘Clean Meat’ Start-Up 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Leaders of Collage Dance Collective, a professional ballet company and a school based in Memphis, were also left mystified. Perspective | MacKenzie Scott’s multimillion-dollar message: Art is essential everywhere, not just in museums and theaters 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Pugh, who spoke modestly and objectively, concentrated on the Memphis musical traditions from which she was drawing. Dance Review: Ballet Memphis and Ballet Arizona at Kennedy Center 2010-06-18T22:15:00Z The celebration of the late singer and actor’s life and career draws fans each year to Memphis and Graceland, Presley’s former home-turned-museum. Online bidding opens for Elvis Presley 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Bullock has said she was terrified at the thought of playing Leigh Anne Tuohy, the blond Memphis mother whose true story is the basis of "The Blind Side." 2010-02-02T20:32:00Z Earthy and untrendy, it’s food that expresses a regional culinary dialect as specifically and confidently as chowder does in Boston or barbecue does in Memphis. California in My Mind 2012-10-19T17:08:31Z The league is looking for a replacement who plays bridge, knows the tournament and business worlds and is willing to relocate to the Memphis area. Bridge: Change Ahead for League Chief Executive 2011-02-06T22:32:55Z A graduate of the University of Memphis, she was busy working as a ghostwriter for a corporate blog, in addition to volunteering at a local farmer’s market and participating in the local Junior League chapter. Finding Each Other in the Place They Had Always Been 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z She went home to West Memphis, where she struggled with her feelings. The Secret to Yebba’s Debut Album? A Big Voice and Lots of Time. 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Those men gave on-camera interviews for “Paradise Lost 3” but not for “West of Memphis.” Filmmakers Clash on Access to Interviews on West Memphis 3 2011-12-04T22:52:17Z According to the groom, the couple met in November 2017 while both were clerking for federal appellate judges, he in Memphis, and she in Nashville. Lila Miller, Jonathan Backer 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z The wife of TV personality Phil Donahue, she has worked with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis for 20 years, raising money for pediatric cancer research. Jefferson prizes for public service awarded to 18 2011-06-22T11:22:11Z Barry Manilow was rushed from Memphis to a Los Angeles hospital on Thursday when complications from an earlier surgery began to arise. Barry Manilow Rushed to Hospital After Complications from Oral Surgery 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Take it from a native—Memphis has good food, good music, and good people. Virginia Williams' Guide to Memphis 2011-05-31T06:20:00.607Z The gallery showcases those photos as well as many depicting the general life and culture of Memphis. Graceland aside, there’s a King-size array of attractions in Memphis 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Passengers flying to or from airports that are dominated by a single carrier — like Memphis, Newark or Dallas/Fort Worth — pay fares 20 or 30 percent higher than at non-hub airports. Acts of Mild Subversion: How to Beat High Airfares 2011-05-05T13:33:16Z Russell Wigginton, who is now director of the National Civil Rights Museum, located in the former motel, said he didn’t venture downtown 10 times as an undergraduate at Rhodes College in Memphis during the mid-80s. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z After new DNA evidence further supported the West Memphis Three’s innocence, the men were offered a surprise plea deal in 2011. Now Damien Echols Will Teach You the Secrets of Magick 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Now it had somehow found a sweet line of lesser resistance and was cruising in mid-river right past me, as if it were late for a board meeting down in Memphis or Baton Rouge. 2010-01-07T18:26:00Z I was raised in Michigan; I wasn’t that familiar with the South until Bill and I started going back and forth between Memphis and Tuscaloosa. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Once the store became claustrophobically crowded, with well over 100 people filling the room, he headed to Straight Drop, a seafood restaurant in North Memphis. A Trip Home With Moneybagg Yo, Trap’s New Ambassador 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z She earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Memphis in 2012. Ivy DePew crowned Miss Rhode Island 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Marc Cohn and Jonatha Brooke presided over a “Sound of Silence,” redone as blue-eyed soul with Memphis horns. Music Review: A SummerStage of Simon and Garfunkel Songs 2010-06-09T20:47:00Z In the early 1950s, he left the Memphis Police Department involuntarily, after he’d been caught selling illegal liquor under the table. The Civil Rights Movement Photographer Who Was Also an F.B.I. Informant 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z White was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on December 11, 1941, the same year as my father. Postscript: Maurice White, 1941–2016 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z His condition was not immediately known, but a University of Memphis official said at midday that Ross insisted he was not canceling his appearance. Rap's Rick Ross treated in Fla. for medical issue 2011-10-14T18:45:09Z Was the spell ever broken by the audience knowing you were actually a gas fitter, not a Memphis rock'n'roller? Joe Cocker: 'I took black acid once ... it was a very dark trip' 2013-01-31T16:48:52Z Ask about his relationship with his church, he laments the rise of the drug trade in Memphis. Al Green, the soul legend and Kennedy Center honoree, is still tired of being alone Lauper recorded the album "Memphis Blues," wrote a memoir and toured internationally. 'Kinky Boots' creators Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein kick back 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z He also was honored at a public celebration at FedExForum, the home of the NBA’s Memphis Grizzles and the University of Memphis men’s basketball team. Indiana man arrested in Young Dolph’s death; 2nd man charged 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z It's soul and R&B. It's rhythms invented on the South Side of Chicago and Treme in New Orleans and along Beale Street in Memphis. Symphony Center leads a musical trip through America 2011-06-06T13:46:53Z Ms. Frost recalled the influence of the awards season on one of her shows, “Memphis,” which won best musical in 2010. ‘A Gentleman’s Guide’ Recoups Costs and Encourages Other Shows 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Comedy had long been a tool for Schneider, now 57, who grew up in Memphis, surrounded by what he described as a warm and funny family. Dan Schneider Once Reigned Over Children’s TV. What Happened? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z And of course, searing images from riots in Los Angeles, Chicago, Newark, Memphis and Miami. ‘Riotsville, USA’ Review: A Fake Town to Explore Ongoing Unrest 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z I hope they don’t neglect the star pie at Cozy Corner in Uptown Memphis. Sampling Sweet Slices of Memphis Pies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z She was by then working as a freelance content creator and a social media manager at the Memphis College of Art, and felt uncertain in her career. Finding Each Other in the Place They Had Always Been 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Graceland's draw has long had a spillover effect on the Memphis economy, with visitors spending money on hotel rooms, dining and other things. Graceland marks 30th year as tourist attraction 2012-06-13T11:19:09Z The Rendezvous, a place that stayed in downtown Memphis when other businesses fled to the suburbs after the riots that wrenched the city after King’s death. They fed the civil rights movement. Now are black-owned barbecue joints dying? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Klein was part of Presley’s entourage known as the “Memphis Mafia.” George Klein, Elvis Presley’s friend, radio host, dies 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Nor will an insufficiency of craft and proportion necessarily sully a modest, invented tale like the one told in “Memphis,” the 2010 Tony Award winner from the “Diana” creative team. ‘Diana, the Musical’ Review: Exploiting the People’s Princess 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z "Memphis" is also nominated for eight Tony Awards, which will be presented next month. 'Memphis' wins 4 prizes at NY Drama Desk Awards 2010-05-24T06:31:00Z Yola took a lot of inspiration from the intermingling of genres, musicians and songs between cities like Memphis and Nashville. Dolly-loving Brit Yola explores fusion of country and soul 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z This is vintage Memphis: people of all ages and races sitting around the bar, cracking jokes and talking, inevitably, about civil rights and love and history far into the night. 2010-01-29T05:08:00Z The south also fares well for affordability; Tennessee's University of Memphis placed third, followed closely by Columbia, South Carolina's University of South Carolina in fourth. The Most Affordable College Towns 2010-11-11T11:00:00Z You're in London promoting your new album, 100 Miles From Memphis. Sheryl Crow: 'I was a people-pleaser and I had to unlearn that' 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z A second location in downtown Memphis reopened to customers Monday. Police tie car used in Young Dolph’s killing to 2nd shooting 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z The former host of a reality court television show was arrested and sentenced to five days in jail for throwing a fit in a Memphis, Tennessee, courtroom, ABC reported. Former TV Judge Joe Brown arrested in real life: media 2014-03-25T04:15:53Z In 2017, a Memphis theater announced it would cancel its annual screening of “Gone With the Wind” the following year, after receiving complaints from some audience members. Perspective | HBO Max isn’t censoring ‘Gone With the Wind.’ It’s reframing it. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z But he added in a phone interview from Memphis, where he is the pastor of the church he founded in 1976, “All this has been amazing.” Hanks and Tomlin Among New Kennedy Center Honorees 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z He began “throwing the Memphis World” — working a paper route — when he was only 8. Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z As Echols is with West of Memphis, Baldwin is credited as a producer on the film. Peter Jackson's West of Memphis: the tale of three wronged men 2012-12-21T08:30:03Z Memphis itself plays a leading role in the film, by way of richly textured, sunlight-imbued images of streets and houses, churches and roads. Richard Brody: Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Annual BAMcinemaFest 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Eventually the family moved to Memphis, which was perfect for Presley. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z She has been a supporter of the West Memphis Three, a group of Arkansas men convicted of the 1993 murder of three young boys. The Dixie Chicks, Long Past Making Nice 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z She sings in English, in a throaty, charismatic drawl backed by warm, midtempo arrangements that sound like they were laid down in Memphis, not Paris. | A French Movie Star Turned Sultry Singer-Songwriter 2013-05-30T17:04:23Z “Memphis is already past ready for justice in this case,” Hagerman said. Young Dolph shooting suspects plead not guilty in Memphis 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z In November 2015, Ms. Safiya returned to Memphis for several months to help her brother and her sister-in-law, who were expecting their first child. Opening Their Eyes to Art and Each Other 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z The former members of the Movement continue their contributions to the Memphis music scene today. Meet the Musicians Who Gave Isaac Hayes His Groove 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z American Queen Steamboat Company is offering an End of Season Sale with savings of $900 per person on five sailings between Memphis and New Orleans in November and December. The week’s best travel deals around the globe 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The marshals service and the Memphis Police Department have been searching for suspects in the killing. Warrant issued in Memphis slaying of rapper Young Dolph 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z On Broadway, musicals such as Tony winner "Memphis," rock band Green Day's "American Idiot" and critical hit "Fela!" have wowed a fresh new set of fans. "Grease" gets slick with sing-a-long version 2010-06-17T00:19:00Z He was honored a day later at a public celebration at FedExForum, the home of the NBA’s Memphis Grizzles and the University of Memphis men’s basketball team. Warrant issued in Memphis slaying of rapper Young Dolph 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Then, a few years ago, Bell was contacted by the producer Martin Shore about a documentary in production called “Take Me to the River,” which celebrated Memphis music. An Underrated Soul Singer Returns 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Baltimore Center Stage is winding up the wayback machine with “Soul: The Stax Musical,” which mechanically chronicles the rise and fall of the Memphis studio through its trademark tunes. Review | ‘Soul: The Stax Musical’ sings from the 1960s jukebox 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z June 16 The ‘King’ Gets a Castle in Denmark A Graceland is sprouting far from Memphis. After Misuse of Grant Money, Unit of WNET.org to Make Amends 2010-06-16T16:44:00Z Many Black churches are led by men who feel ill-equipped to speak on abortion even if they personally disagree with it, says Pastor Earle J. Fisher of Abyssinian Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis. Why some Black churches aren’t elated about the possible end of Roe 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z One of the event’s highlights was a King of Memphis competition. All Jooked Up With Everywhere to Go 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z “We really miss the patriotism of America; so many of us crave that sense of pride and camaraderie from back home,” said Buchanan, an Alabama native who moved to Toronto from Memphis, Tennessee, in 2000. Fireworks, hot dogs, hurricane help mark July 4th 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z I mean, Memphis is where rock ’n’ roll was born. Virginia Williams' Guide to Memphis 2011-05-31T06:20:00.607Z "Memphis," a new musical that looks at the roots of rock-and-roll, won eight nominations while musical revival "Ragtime," received seven. "Fela!." "La Cage aux Folles," lead Tony nominations 2010-05-04T17:06:00Z Mr. Starck is to blame, but that squeezer is part of Memphis’s legacy. Design: Postmodern, but Not Especially Proud of It 2011-09-11T13:06:04Z Both cities are in northwestern Mississippi, with Tunica about 40 miles south-west of Memphis, Tennessee. Morgan Freeman unhurt in plane landing emergency 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Ms. Baker produced it herself at Ardent Studios, a Memphis institution, in six 12-hour days: time enough to weave in more of her own piano, guitar, organ and voice. Julien Baker Bravely Confronts Her Traumas and Fears 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z But it’s a Memphis song in both spirit and content—scrappy, panicked, rollicking. Shelter from the Storm: A Review of Bob Dylan’s Whiskey 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Piazza, who at the pinnacle of her career in the 1950s performed with the Metropolitan Opera, died of congestive heart failure on Thursday at her home in Memphis, her daughter Marguerite Bonnett said. Marguerite Piazza, Popular Singer of Opera, Dies at 86 2012-08-07T02:37:10Z The vote allows Memphis to ask state officials to amend a Tourism Development Zone plan to include Graceland’s expansion. Memphis council backs part of Graceland expansion plan 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z "It's exciting. It's a great perk for Memphis," she said. British princes go to Graceland, wedding on trip 2014-05-05T04:17:50Z Memphis becoming a sign post for finding each other as well as for the real Memphis. Q & A: Rosanne Cash Talks About Her New Album, The River and the Thread 2014-01-15T17:25:41Z As predictable as “Memphis” is, it’s downright audacious compared to “Johnny Baseball,” which presents its dewy hero and heroine as a pair of lovely-to-look-at-and-listen-to valentine cards. | 'Johnny Baseball': Babe Ruth Sings at American Repertory Theater 2010-06-09T21:49:00Z Franchises in Memphis, Nashville, and other cities are spreading the Gus’s gospel. The South's Best Fried Chicken 2014-02-15T06:50:02.803Z Dancing and teaching took her to many parts of the United States; but it was when she returned to Memphis that she began to recruit students from many cultural and dance backgrounds. Jookin in Memphis, Celebrated 2012-11-18T04:50:46Z Carter grew up in Carroll County and made her stage debut in a 1960 production of "Carousel" in Memphis. 'Designing Women' actress Dixie Carter dies at 70 2010-04-11T04:23:00Z The overall effect was of the Memphis era of graphic shape and color, so beloved by Mr. Lagerfeld in the 1980s, brought together with exceptional skill to make a fine and convincing Fendi collection. Minimalist Matters 2012-09-23T17:51:45Z I’m not trying to take on Memphis or Nashville, to copy it, it’s just a taste for me. Nick Lowe interview: Pop music for grown-ups 2011-12-08T05:26:00Z So we went to a house in a respectable part of Memphis. When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z And I eventually reached out to a voice teacher in Memphis, Tenn., and began working with her. He Quit Singing Because of Body Shaming. Now He’s Making a Comeback. 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z "Memphis," a tale of segregation and integration set in the American South in the 1950s, won four Tony Awards in 2010, including best musical. Adam Pascal to join Broadway's 'Memphis' in Oct. 2011-09-06T14:58:09Z In the 1960s, Birmingham, Ala., and Memphis became known as landmark sites in the civil rights struggle. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Stateside, April 4, 2018 marks the 50th year since the civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Where to Celebrate a Centennial (or 3) in 2018 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Stern worked for years at a Memphis folklore center and directed an ethnic heritage project nicknamed “Lox and Grits.” ‘The Pinch,’ a magical new novel by Steve Stern 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z I went to Memphis, to Maui, to San Francisco and all over . New TV show follows the life singing car journalist 2011-12-02T17:03:12Z After four years in the Marines, Mr. Clement played with Buzz and Jack and the Bayou Boys, before returning to Memphis. Jack Clement, Producer and Country Songwriter, Dies at 82 2013-08-09T00:17:06Z The two show unity in the chorus, even if its reasoning is misguided: "Bring it on home to Memphis." Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell on a graceful ride in 'The Traveling Kind' 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z The Guest House is a hotel located steps from the Graceland home, where the singer lived in Memphis. Elvis Presley’s jewelry, clothing sold at Graceland auction 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z In addition to plans to expand in Chicago and Colorado, three new locations are on the drawing board for Memphis over the next couple of years. Kimbal Musk takes the tech entrepreneur ethos and applies it to food 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z “Jersey Boys” and “Memphis” won Tony Awards for best musical, but Mr. Trujillo has never been nominated for his work, and his next scheduled assignment is off Broadway. Sergio Trujillo Realizes His Dream of Salsa on Broadway 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z CI: Who cut the deal that gets “Memphis” a reprise? ArtsBeat: 'Book of Mormon' and 'War Horse' Win Big at Tonys 2011-06-13T03:23:03Z At times, it can resemble Andy Kaufman in the wrestling ring, taunting Memphis hayseeds that “he’s from Hollywood, where people use their brains.” Bill Maher is smug, outspoken and just might get a congressman voted out of office Franklin, who died Thursday, at seventy-six—a family statement cited pancreatic cancer as the cause—was born on March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee. Aretha Franklin Is As Immortal As Can Be 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z I was in Memphis, Tennessee, visiting the photographer William Eggleston, and one night after dinner he said that there was a little soirée he wanted to go to. When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Set on his path by Bill Hicks, a local-legend art teacher at Central High School in Memphis, he enrolled at Pratt Institute, but now says, “I went way off track.” Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z The Memphis International Airport, for example, thanked DFW for pointing out the issue and called the emoji “too… crash-y,” while the St. Louis Lambert International Airport stated, “Thank goodness someone said it.” Airports ask Unicode to change plane-landing emoji: 'The other one is a little too… crash-y' 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Much of the book is structured around the final days of King’s life, as he tried to manage a sanitation strike in Memphis that turned violent, leaving him dejected. The Civil Rights Movement Photographer Who Was Also an F.B.I. Informant 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Then the book, without presuming to explain Galt’s inner workings, follows him east toward Memphis, where he knew Dr. King could be found. Books of The Times: Hampton Sides?s ?Hellhound on His Trail? Traces Martin Luther King Jr.?s Killer 2010-04-21T22:24:00Z Mr. Carson, sitting at the piano at a recording studio in Memphis, couldn’t come up with one. Wayne Carson, songwriter who penned ballad ‘Always on My Mind,’ dies at 72 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The bride’s father is a dermatologist in a shared private practice in Memphis with the bride’s mother, a rheumatologist. Emily Woodbury, Javier Sanchez 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Recent visitors included Orlis Dow, 77, who drove with two friends to Memphis in a motor home from Mineral Wells, Texas. Graceland marks 30th year as tourist attraction 2012-06-13T11:19:09Z There is at least one more West Memphis Three-related project to come. West Memphis Three Inspire Yet Another Film, ‘Devil’s Knot’ 2014-05-07T14:13:32Z Two months later, Mr. Lewis drove his Lincoln Continental into the front gates of Graceland, Presley’s mansion in Memphis, just hours after being arrested and jailed on a drunken-driving charge. Jerry Lee Lewis, a Rock ’n’ Roll Original, Dies at 87 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, he opened an eponymous nightclub on Memphis’s redeveloped Beale Street, later adding clubs in New York, Nashville and Orlando. B.B. King, Mississippi master of the blues, dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Baker herself is shy, squeaky, small of stature—an introverted pip in plaid shirts with a Memphis twang and a nervous stutter. Julien Baker Believes in God 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z In the new movie Mr. Byers, who in the earlier films ranted theatrically about Satanism and the West Memphis Three’s guilt, is shown outside the courtroom in 2011 proclaiming their innocence. Movie Review: ‘West of Memphis,’ by Amy Berg, on ‘West Memphis Three’ 2012-12-24T21:26:52Z Perhaps a bit too much, because Coach swamps the screen time, leaving just a little to discuss the home lives of these players in deprived north Memphis. Undefeated – review 2012-08-02T21:15:01Z The way he flattens the curves of his Memphis drawl into something stiff and stern. Perspective | Young Dolph’s heaviest rhymes made this lethal world feel lighter 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Here are others elsewhere in Atlanta, Memphis and Boston. Remembering King in Atlanta, Memphis and Boston 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Made in Dagenham failed to make the best new musical category, which sees Memphis and Beautiful face competition from the Kinks-inspired Sunny Afternoon and Here Lies Love. Musicals lead Olivier nominations 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Firth, gravely miscast, plays Ron Lax, a private investigator from Memphis who donated his services to the defense team. Movie Review: ‘Devil’s Knot,’ Fictional Revisiting of West Memphis Crime 2014-05-08T22:58:26Z Larry — the black sheep — has come from Brooklyn to stay with his Orthodox sister in Memphis as they sit shiva. Review | Honoring the dead? Nathan Englander’s ‘kaddish.com’ imagines there’s an app for that. 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z These compilations — including a third that will be released on streaming platforms in June — depict the local scene as vibrant and lively, with a bluesy sound distinctive to Memphis. A Gospel Revival in Memphis Breathes Fresh Life Into Sacred Sounds 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The references to Memphis and Thebes, Isis and Phthah remain in the libretto, but there's not a hieroglyph or a pyramid, let alone an elephant, to be seen. Aida 2010-04-28T20:30:00Z Midtown Manhattan doesn’t seem like a great spot for ribs, but Virgil’s offers messy, excellent barbeque - Memphis pork ribs, Georgia chicken fried steak, Kansas City fried chicken and Texas beef brisket, each around $22. Go For the Food: Food that shines in Times Square 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Willis, a singer and songwriter who fears he is losing his creative mojo, follows Wright’s footsteps in this intensely atmospheric tour of the poorer section of Memphis. ‘Memphis,’ From Tim Sutton, Mixes Music and Mysticism 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z As Cauley recounted in a 2007 interview with Memphis Magazine, hearing Redding speak about the song remains one his final memories from the doomed flight. The 7 most tragic band deaths in rock history 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Rocky’s sound was purposefully hybrid, as conscious of Houston and Memphis and Los Angeles as New York. ASAP Yams, of ASAP Worldwide, Bridged Hip-Hop Regions and Generations 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z One is the real 1956 incident in which four young, soon-to-be pop legends gathered for an impromptu jam at Sun Records in Memphis, captured on tape by their mentor Sam Phillips. 'Million Dollar Quartet': the jam session that shook up Broadway 2012-05-10T20:33:05Z Pieces leaving Memphis for the first time include the singer's wallet containing photos of his daughter, his front door keys and a TCB ring, which stands for taking care of business. Elvis retrospective comes to the UK 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z There is one on I-40 on the way to Memphis. Becoming a mother at 50, after a lifetime of saying I didn’t want kids 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z On the final day of the Spring Nationals in Memphis, the Jacoby Open Swiss Teams was decided in the last round. Bridge: The Spring Nationals in Memphis Are Decided 2012-03-30T22:15:28Z The Product Analyst, a tech review site in Memphis, was going to scrap its holiday event but the staff requested one so they found a compromise: a P.P.E.-themed soiree. Getting Creative for the 2020 Office Holiday Party 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z He earned a degree in business from the University of Memphis. Jim Stewart, Unlikely Entrepreneur of Soul Music, Dies at 92 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z When she returned to New York, though, her mind remained in Memphis, with Mr. Williams. Opening Their Eyes to Art and Each Other 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z I decided to shun the pricey hotels of downtown and stay at the Pilgrim House Hostel, in Midtown Memphis’s funky Cooper-Young neighborhood. Graceland aside, there’s a King-size array of attractions in Memphis 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z ISP: The last job I ever had, I worked with him in Memphis. The Black Lips play Name That Garage Tune! 2011-08-18T20:59:01Z "Memphis" was cited for best orchestration, original score and best book of a musical, twice beating out "Fela!," which won for best costume design of a musical and best sound design of a musical. "Red" and "Memphis" dominate Tonys 2010-06-14T00:59:00Z After a stint in the Compulsive Gamblers, a Memphis band that included violin and saxophone, Cartwright and Yarber “actively tried to escape that sound and do something a little more abrasive and groove-oriented” in Oblivians. Oblivians return, chaos follows 2013-07-03T14:57:00Z His objective on “The Road From Memphis,” he explained, was to make the kind of record that the hip-hop artists of 2051 will also want to sample. A Soulful Survivor With New Music to Make 2011-08-05T14:03:08Z Wrap it up at one of the city’s great outdoor spaces: Overton Park, a 342-acre green space that includes the Brooks Museum, the Levitt Shell, the Memphis Zoo and other attractions. What to Do in Memphis 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Ken Correll, the owner of Memphis Taproom, told BillyPenn.com that the letter arrived sometime last week. Philadelphia restaurant receives 'kidnapper-style' letter demanding return of sandwich formerly on the menu 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Disney flacks noted that played especially strongly in the South: The movie's top five-grossing theaters were in Memphis, Tenn., Jackson, Miss., Chicago, Atlanta and Dallas. Box Office: Apes Fight Off The Help; No Joy in Gleeville 2011-08-14T05:45:00Z “Heart Like a Levee,” Taylor’s second release for Merge Records, is less beholden to a singer-songwriter or folk tradition than to blistered southern soul—Wilson Pickett, Muscle Shoals, Capricorn Records, “Dusty in Memphis.” Lost in America with Hiss Golden Messenger 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The eclectic list of performers was announced Tuesday on the website for Memphis in May, the month-long tourism event that includes the three-day music festival. The Black Keys lead Beale Street music fest lineup 2013-02-28T18:46:10Z The barbecue expert Steven Raichlen broke the varieties down regionally: In North Carolina, vinegar sauce is mixed in; South Carolinians use mustard sauce; the Memphis version may be sliced instead, and comes with mustard coleslaw. A Field Guide to the American Sandwich 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Memphis had heard five decades of the blues: country sounds from the Delta, barrelhouse boogie-woogie, jumps and shuffles and gospel shouts. B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Winchester had 10 years of piano lessons, played organ in church and picked up guitar after hearing rockabilly, blues and gospel on Memphis radio. Jesse Winchester, Writer and Singer of Thoughtful Songs, Dies at 69 2014-04-11T23:53:26Z It was first reported by the Memphis newspaper The Commercial Appeal. Ben Cauley, Sole Survivor of Otis Redding Crash, Dies at 67 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z They operated a successful grocery store in Memphis that bested a white business. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The 90 students who are pregnant or new mothers at Frayser High School in Memphis and not in a reality show are probably not watching enough television. Television: ... And Baby Makes Reality TV 2011-01-21T17:40:59Z Marshal’s Office task force Thursday in Memphis on a fugitive from justice warrant, The Athens Banner-Herald reported Monday, citing Memphis police. Federal agents arrest rapper who was on the run for months 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Kimball performs six shows a week in "Memphis," at the Shubert Theatre, a musical about a great female singer in the 1950s and attempts to get her - and other black music - played on the radio. Broadway star is also a fashionista 2010-06-07T18:35:00Z With very few and worthwhile exceptions — Mount Rushmore, for example, or the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis — a path through the central swath of the country has simply not been beaten. Frugal Traveler: What I Learned Driving Through the Heartland 2013-08-28T21:32:04Z A native of Memphis, Mr. Moss has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Kansas and a law degree from the Mississippi College School of Law. It Was One Sign After Another 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z So while West of Memphis retells the story of the case, it also becomes part of it – the legal work Jackson financed unpicking the threadbare convictions. Peter Jackson's West of Memphis: the tale of three wronged men 2012-12-21T08:30:03Z We spoke to Black recently as he was en route from Memphis to a casino in Tunica, Miss., about the political climate, his early years and being typecast. Lewis Black returns to the home town that sparked his political fire 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z As a tour wound down two years ago, Mr. Allman’s manager asked him to stop for a meeting in Memphis on his way home to Georgia. A New Start And a Gumbo Of Old Sounds 2011-01-14T20:17:09Z They used the money to buy a women’s consignment shop at South Second Street and Beale Street in Memphis. Bernard Lansky, Clothier to Music Royalty, Dies at 85 2012-11-17T05:58:27Z Known for his depictions of tough street life and his independent approach to the music business, Young Dolph was admired for charitable works in Memphis. Span of Memphis street renamed for slain rapper Young Dolph 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z First Came Memphis Minnie Stony Plain Memphis Minnie was the great female star of mid-20th-century blues, a tough, outspoken singer and songwriter who was also a remarkably fine acoustic and electric guitarist. Maria Muldaur: … First Came Memphis Minnie – review 2012-12-13T21:46:01Z TJ Martin and Dan Lindsay's documentary, which focuses on a North Memphis football team, shows, movingly, how passion for a sport can change a life. 15 of Seattle's top entertainment picks, April 1-7 2012-03-28T20:52:04Z During their trip, the students took in the Broadway show "Memphis" and spoke with the cast after the performance. HS students compete for top music theater awards 2010-06-28T20:28:00Z The movie shows the agonisingly slow progress made by the campaign, and the final agonising choice faced by the West Memphis Three. West of Memphis – review 2012-12-20T22:00:03Z In Memphis, we listened to Blind Mississippi Morris belt out King’s classic in a bar on Beale Street. A Muslim American’s Homecoming: Cowboys, Country Music, Chapatis 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z “Memphis Beat,” a crime drama that begins on Tuesday on TNT, is a classic procedural — unorthodox cop meets by-the-book lieutenant — framed by the smoky, neon-lit romance of the blues and Southern decay. | 'Memphis Beat': On TNT, Jason Lee Plays a Cop With an Eye on Elvis 2010-06-21T22:32:00Z Voters who represent regional theaters and national touring companies favored “Memphis,” believing its familiar love story and tuneful score would draw bigger audiences on the road. Predicting Winners of the Tony Awards 2010-06-10T23:18:00Z The son of a Baptist preacher in a small, evangelical Ozarks community, Conley is outed and at 19 enters treatment at the program’s grim facility in Memphis, earnestly hoping to cure himself. ‘Inside My Head I’m a Girl’: Three Ways of Growing Up Gay 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z When he was killed, Young Dolph was in Memphis to participate in Thanksgiving turkey giveaways and visit a cancer center. Span of Memphis street renamed for slain rapper Young Dolph 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The Stax offices in Memphis were a regular target of threats; they were located around the corner from the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968. Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The Memphis World and the Tri-State Defender, the two black newspapers in Memphis at the time, both reported favorably on Presley, whom they saw as a kind of ally. Going to Graceland 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z I’d been to Graceland in Memphis, so this visit to understand the origin story of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll seemed fitting. From Nashville to Tupelo on the Natchez Trace Parkway 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Fox News previously reported that the Memphis Police Department posted about an incident on Facebook that occurred at a Burger King in Memphis on Tuesday, March 30th. McDonald's customer nearly robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight at drive-thru: report 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Once the license is granted, in the next month or two, Memphis Seoul will become part of the bar. Seattle Chefs Anchor Restaurants at New Nordstrom in Midtown 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Though she’s a Cali Valley girl and proud, she has family all over the South, in Memphis in particular. Riley Keough: ‘I had a bad reaction to authority’ 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The fugitives out of Down By Law, the Memphis tourists in Mystery Train, the taxicab passengers from Night on Earth. Jim Jarmusch: ‘I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z We met friends of friends in Alabama who contacted their children to check on us in Memphis. Four women, four states, one inspiring Southern road trip 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z “The car connected with our shooting is also connected with the shooting in Memphis regarding the rapper,” Howell said. Police tie car used in Young Dolph’s killing to 2nd shooting 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z “He gave us opportunities denied to most Blacks in America and we gifted him with an indelible Memphis Sound that, together, we created at Stax Records.” Jim Stewart, Unlikely Entrepreneur of Soul Music, Dies at 92 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The ceremony started in Memphis and was held in Nashville, Tenn., for more than four decades. Gospel artists flock to Atlanta to advance career 2012-06-01T12:47:08Z Before a short stint as a district court judge in Memphis, he had barely touched Southern soil. The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z A release date for “West of Memphis” was not immediately announced. ArtsBeat: Peter Jackson's West Memphis Three Documentary Acquired by Sony Pictures Classics 2012-03-01T14:05:32Z Williams was inside a car in Memphis, Tennessee, in July 2020 when an occupant of the car discharged a firearm at a gas station, officials said. Rapper Pooh Shiesty pleads guilty to federal gun charge 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z While living near Memphis, Mr. Cotton drove an ice truck and spent two years in the band of another blues giant, Howlin’ Wolf. James Cotton, hard-blowing harmonica master of the blues, dies at 81 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z She also performed in Europe and Asia and at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and sang in church choirs, including that of the Rev. Al Green’s Full Gospel Tabernacle in Memphis. Ruby Wilson, Singer Known as Queen of Beale Street, Dies at 68 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Cunningham ultimately returned to Memphis a few years later and launched his own studio. Member of Jerry Lee Lewis band killed in shootout 2012-10-15T00:21:11Z Brown, Montrail 'Money' Brown The Oscar-nominated documentary Undefeated is about a big hearted football coach who turns a legendarily bad high school football team from North Memphis into a contender for the local championship. Undefeated: Oscar Night Lights? 2012-02-17T11:58:49Z The records began to get radio airplay in Memphis, and Presley’s first live performance — backed by Mr. Moore and Black — occurred on July 30, 1954. Scotty Moore, guitarist on Elvis Presley’s groundbreaking Sun Sessions, dies at 84 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z "Or a bus tour going from Sioux Falls to Memphis or down to Branson, this would be a perfect stop off on the way." SD museum adds Elvis' guitar to vast collection 2013-04-25T16:14:15Z Black and white stripes are a key Memphis motif. Memphis Milano Returns, and Takes Over Fashion 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Fordjour, a Harvard graduate from Memphis and the son of Ghanaian immigrants, is known as an interdisciplinary artist whose colorful works often include references to issues of African-American identity. A Fight Over Money, Loyalty and Who Gets Credit for an Artist’s Rise 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Plentiful farmers’ markets and inexpensive local specialties — barbecued pork sandwiches in Memphis, smoked trout in the Ozarks, fried chicken in southeast Kansas — kept food costs down. Frugal Traveler: What I Learned Driving Through the Heartland 2013-08-28T21:32:04Z He was traveling to Memphis to perform at an open University of Memphis basketball practice. ArtsBeat Blog: Tough Weekend for Ailing Rapper 2011-10-17T18:01:05Z Mr. Ma will play with Chinese musicians on ancient Chinese instruments, accompany the Memphis street dancer Charles Riley, a k a Lil’ Buck, and collaborate with Ms. Streep during her reading. Group of American Cultural Figures to Visit China 2011-10-27T00:20:49Z Mr. Williams, 32, was two class years ahead of Ms. Safiya at Overton High School, a creative and performing arts school in Memphis that he transferred to after struggling at a conventional school. Opening Their Eyes to Art and Each Other 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter labeled it a "gripping overall picture of the West Memphis 3 wrongful-conviction saga" and summed up, "Thorny, blood-boiling and finely made, it deserves a theatrical push." Bullied as a kid, Peter Jackson fights back on film 2012-01-22T00:25:35Z The Miser’s mom and dad, growing up in the South in the 1960s, tuned in to the soul sounds coming from Memphis and Muscle Shoals and danced the shag to Carolina beach music. Exploring Motown Music at the Schomburg Center 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z His book, which takes its title from the Robert Johnson blues song, arrives in conjunction with “Roads to Memphis,” a documentary to be broadcast on PBS May 3. Books of The Times: Hampton Sides?s ?Hellhound on His Trail? Traces Martin Luther King Jr.?s Killer 2010-04-21T22:24:00Z Ross was scheduled to perform Friday night at the University of Memphis basketball team's midnight opening practice event, "Memphis Madness." Rapper Rick Ross reportedly hospitalized 2nd time 2011-10-15T10:54:10Z He had recently performed at a concert at the University of Memphis. Police in Memphis hunt for suspects in Young Dolph’s killing 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z With a new CD, “Experiments in Time” and a leading role in a movie, “Memphis,” to follow next month, the lo-fi singer-songwriter Willis Earl Beal is seemingly an artist on the rise. CD Baby, a Company for the Niche Musician 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The fun is that four of these women wear point shoes and dance smart, gleaming ballet steps, while the other four wear sneakers and do hip-hop: Memphis jookin, in fact. Review: Ballet Memphis Shatters Basic Rules 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z For example, he pointed to the “Paradise Lost” documentaries he made with Bruce Sinofsky, about three young men in West Memphis, Ark., who were convicted of the murders of three 8-year-old boys in 1993. Director Accepts Limits on Chevron to ?Crude? Footage 2010-07-16T22:53:00Z It’s been that way since she took her first art class, 76 years ago, when she was growing up in Memphis. | Los Angeles: Gere Kavanaugh Reflects on a Life in Design 2013-05-08T22:11:16Z This Memphis rapper has so many ways of messing with your head. Best music of 2018: Serpentwithfeet has a voice unlike any other 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The original prosecutor, Scott Ellington, said he still considered the West Memphis Three guilty. Movie Review: ‘West of Memphis,’ by Amy Berg, on ‘West Memphis Three’ 2012-12-24T21:26:52Z "We might've lost the house but we left with Memphis, and that meant more to us. I wanted to make the best of things and see the silver lining," Matthews said. Man rescues engagement ring, proposes after home burns down 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z European music enthusiasts and record collectors flock to Mr. Clay’s music because of its spare, “unvarnished” style, wrought in the 1960s soul scenes in Memphis and Muscle Shoals, Ala., Price said. Otis Clay, rhythm and blues singer with unvarnished style, dies at 73 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Martin is an old friend of mine, and a few years back we had held an unofficial competition, photographing together in Memphis and the Mississippi delta – a "shoot-out" as we called it. Photographer John Gossage's best shot 2011-04-13T21:30:01Z And so now it’s back to Memphis, back to the R&B roots.” A Soulful Survivor With New Music to Make 2011-08-05T14:03:08Z Stay tuned for a new on South Main and a new museum devoted to famed Memphis photographer . Shake the Blues in Memphis 2013-04-25T14:20:10.780Z I still laugh recalling the day in 2014 when I spent 8 1/2 hours nonstop watching jookin in Memphis; I was probably the oldest and staidest person present but by no means the unhappiest. Hail, Dance, and Farewell to the Critic’s Life 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Memphis had entered the language of popular culture and advertising. How the Memphis Design Movement Made a Comeback 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Few, though, have equaled those rehearsals I watched with the jookin dancers of Memphis. Jookin in Memphis, Celebrated 2012-11-18T04:50:46Z She was found dead on Sunday afternoon in a neighborhood west of Memphis International Airport, the Memphis Police Department said in a statement on Monday. Gangsta Boo, Memphis Rapper Formerly With Three 6 Mafia, Dies at 43 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z The cafe has three locations in Memphis that serve fried catfish, tilapia, salmon, trout, po’ boys and more. Graceland aside, there’s a King-size array of attractions in Memphis 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z It’s also filled with media folk who have traveled to Memphis to ask the 68-year-old how he feels about receiving one of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors. Al Green, the soul legend and Kennedy Center honoree, is still tired of being alone The store had run out of doughnuts; I may have missed dessert, but I was treated to a serving of white privilege when I asked him about life in Memphis during the civil rights struggle. A Muslim American’s Homecoming: Cowboys, Country Music, Chapatis 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z An eighteen year old Presley paid $4 to record the track at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. Elvis' First Recording Sells For $300,000 At Graceland Auction 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The instruments were said to have been saved for years by an anonymous, retired embalmer at the Memphis Funeral Home. Autopsy tools used on Elvis removed from auction 2010-07-26T02:17:00Z On Nov. 14, the couple were wed in Memphis, where they live, at Baron Hirsch Congregation, the synagogue Mr. Moss grew up attending. It Was One Sign After Another 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Pitts first recorded when he was 15 and had a long, historic run in Memphis after moving there to join Hayes. 'Shaft' guitarist Pitts passes away in Memphis 2012-05-01T22:16:04Z Mr. Kimball is a theater actor who has stayed with and worked on "Memphis" for several years, through a few different regional incarnations. No Obvious Front-Runner in Tony Race 2010-05-04T18:24:00Z City officials and community activists also pointed to the killing as a symbol of the scourge of gun violence in Memphis, where more than 250 homicides have been reported this year. Span of Memphis street renamed for slain rapper Young Dolph 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z In a letter calling for the curfew Wednesday, Memphis City Council member JB Smiley called the shooting an act of “senseless gun violence.” Police in Memphis hunt for suspects in Young Dolph’s killing 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z To arrive in Greenwood, Lewis flew from Bangor, Me., to Nashville, Tenn. He then drove to Indiana to pick up the fireworks and returned by way of Memphis before heading farther south to Leflore County. A Sculptor Takes His Craft to the Skies 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Washington wrote the foreword to “The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells,” published in 1995. Black Women Writers and the Secret Space of Diaries 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The film follows a high-school football team in North Memphis through 2009-2010, profiling three players and their volunteer coach as they weather the surprisingly emotional ups and downs of the season. What TJ Martin wishes he'd said onstage at the Oscars 2012-03-28T03:24:03Z An excellent example occurred during the second round of the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams at the Spring Nationals in Memphis last month. Bridge: Bridge ? Vanderbilt Knockout Teams at Spring Nationals 2012-04-06T21:45:19Z At least that’s how you sell Sun Studio in Memphis to your kid. 12 Ultimate Trips for Kids 2010-05-06T16:06:00Z The pandemic also did not crush her entrepreneurial spirit: In January 2021, Ms. Hardy, launched an enhanced water company called Hardy Beverages in Memphis. Finding Each Other in the Place They Had Always Been 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The hospitable owners of Memphis Music Mansion rent several private rooms in their spacious home via Airbnb, and host frequent pop-up concerts at the site. 36 Hours in Memphis 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Theater 'Memphis' The raucous, radio-themed, R&B musical that had a pre-Broadway run in Seattle returns, thanks to the national touring production. Madonna's in town, plus 15 other things to do this week 2012-10-01T14:01:55Z In addition to academic papers on rock, he wrote the 33 and 1/3 book on Dusty Springfield’s album “Dusty in Memphis.” What It Was Like Writing Tom Petty’s Life Story 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z It would land in Memphis a little more than an hour later. Book excerpt: After MLK death, RFK 'poured his heart out' 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z As the story drifts southward from Iowa toward New Orleans, stopping in St. Louis, Memphis and Little Rock, it’s hard not to be swept along on currents of wistful patriotism. Review: ‘Mississippi Grind’ Keeps Its Cards Close 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The terms of the plea deal meant that the West Memphis Three weren’t eligible for wrongful conviction compensation. Now Damien Echols Will Teach You the Secrets of Magick 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Contact Andrew A. Smith of the Memphis Commercial Appeal at capncomics@aol.com or on his website, http://captaincomics.ning.com. Comics: Looking at 'Cover Run' and 'Archie' 2011-02-08T16:06:04Z Her mother is the owner of Mustard Seed Studio, a sewing shop in Memphis. Portia Brown, Chaz Clark 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Lisa Marie was in Memphis on Tuesday and Wednesday - her 44th birthday - in order to attend the exhibit's opening to VIP fans. AP: Lisa Marie Presley talks about new exhibit 2012-02-01T15:14:10Z The Washington Post won several awards in the Association of Food Journalists 2014 competition, the group announced at its conference last week in Memphis. Washington Post wins food journalism awards In his first public utterances, in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, he spoke of that same vision. “He had a vision for rock ‘n’ roll long before the music existed”: Peter Guralnick digs deep into the history of the man who made Elvis Presley 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Sides was a 6-year-old in Memphis when Dr. King was shot. Books of The Times: Hampton Sides?s ?Hellhound on His Trail? Traces Martin Luther King Jr.?s Killer 2010-04-21T22:24:00Z Ash, professor emeritus of history at the University of Tennessee, writes that the Memphis riot is “crucial to understanding one of our original and most intractable matters, the role of race in American life.” ‘A Massacre in Memphis’: a day of shame in the River City 2014-01-08T21:54:41Z Nowhere is improvisation more on display than in Memphis. They fed the civil rights movement. Now are black-owned barbecue joints dying? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z All the Way from Memphis – Mott the Hoople A true tale of many, many mistakes from lost guitars and disappearing road crew to grim ticket sales and hotel room robberies. Readers recommend: songs about royalty 2010-12-10T00:01:00Z Mr. Smith is based in Little Rock, Ark., but he lived for a time in Memphis, and still plays there often. Dee Dee Bridgewater Throws Herself a Memphis Soul Party 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z In “Memphis,” the newly issued fourth chapter of the series, Roberts stitches together elements of roots music, free jazz, and avant-garde assemblage to invoke an ancestor whose father was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Raúl Esparza, “Seared,” and Yvonne Rainer 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Wayne Jackson, a standout trumpeter who played on rock-and-roll, soul, R&B and pop mainstays with Memphis Horns partner and tenor saxophonist Andrew Love, died June 21 at a hospital in Memphis. Wayne Jackson, trumpeter of the Memphis Horns, dies at 74 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Their visit inspired dozens of fans, paparazzi and news media to patiently wait hours on Saturday outside the Memphis Hunt and Polo Club for the chance to see royalty. British princes go to Graceland, wedding on trip 2014-05-05T04:17:50Z Then Larry Rohter speaks with Booker T. Jones, composer of “Green Onions” and other classic tracks, about his time at Stax Records and “The Road From Memphis,” his recent collaboration with members of the Roots. ArtsBeat: Popcast: A Report From the Cloud, a Chat with Booker T. Jones 2011-06-23T17:29:51Z In 2017, the Orpheum theater in Memphis said it would stop showing the film, as it had done each year for 34 years, after receiving complaints from patrons and other commenters. HBO Max Pulls ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Citing Racist Depictions 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The tempo and sparse arrangement allow the listener to linger on the scene she describes, which is as vivid as an imagistic poem: “Memphis in June/A shady veranda/Under a Sunday blue sky.” Moons, Junes and 7 Summer Tunes 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z There is a luxurious family outing to Memphis in a chauffeured white Rolls-Royce. Movie Review: ‘Mighty Fine,’ With Chazz Palminteri and Andie MacDowell 2012-05-25T00:09:31Z As they spent more time in Memphis, the potential story got bigger. Seattle native TJ Martin heads to Oscars with his documentary 'Undefeated' 2012-02-24T18:01:06Z In 1994, three teenagers were convicted of murdering three young boys in West Memphis, whose bodies apparently showed signs of torture and ritual assault. West of Memphis – review 2012-12-20T22:00:03Z The head of Nashville, Tennessee-based Gibson has said over the last month that his company is being unfairly targeted after an Aug. 24 raid by federal authorities at factories in Memphis and Nashville. Madagascar holds concert against illegal logging 2011-09-30T16:39:09Z That only happened when he moved back to Nashville in 1986, after Memphis, after Montana, and then a spell living in Chicago. Kurt Wagner on Lambchop, Nashville ? and being seen as a redneck 2012-02-10T00:00:01Z The combined paying audience of “Hiroshima,” “Language” and “Memphis” probably won’t add up to the viewership for one episode of a moderately popular cable series. “Memphis” and the beauty of plotless movies 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z “I Heard the Voice” was a regional hit that established King’s group as one of the finest in Memphis, at a time when the city was much better known for secular rather than sacred soul. A Gospel Revival in Memphis Breathes Fresh Life Into Sacred Sounds 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The group of food writers and historians, moderated by the author Jayne Cohen, will also talk about Memphis kosher barbecue and Israeli cooking in New Orleans. Discussing Kosher Barbecue and Other Jewish-Southern Foods 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z His death was announced by the Memorial Park Funeral Home in Memphis and reported by the Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper. George C. Nichopoulos, doctor who prescribed drugs to Elvis, dies at 88 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z Wayne Lamar Jackson was born in Memphis on Nov. 24, 1941, and he grew up across the Mississippi River in West Memphis, Ark., according to his website. Wayne Jackson, trumpeter of the Memphis Horns, dies at 74 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Moving with his wife to Memphis, her father opened a grocery store there. Anita Kerr, an Architect of the Nashville Sound, Dies at 94 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z The Memphis museum uses light to dramatic effect, but in a very different way. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z No surprise, Memphis also ranked well in the survey for its music scene and its melodic sense of history. These Are America’s Best Cities for Barbecue 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z The singer, who at one stage in his life worked as BB King's valet and chauffeur, was born in Rosemark, Tennessee, before moving as a teenager to nearby Memphis. Singer Bobby 'Blue' Bland dies at 83 2013-06-24T14:59:59Z Recording “The Road From Memphis” summoned a lot of memories, good and bad, of the Stax era, Mr. Jones said. A Soulful Survivor With New Music to Make 2011-08-05T14:03:08Z The trilogy of films follows the original trials and subsequent appeals along with widespread public doubt about the guilt of the West Memphis Three, as they came to be known. Serial: What to Watch, Hear and Read If You're Obsessed with the Podcast 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z The deal occurred during the Jacoby Open Swiss Teams on the final day of the Spring Nationals in Memphis last month. Bridge: Bridge - Surprising Disparity at the Spring Nationals 2012-04-08T22:06:51Z His fourth studio album leans away from traditional country and more toward Memphis soul, with a little folk and Americana thrown in for good measure. Music Monday: 15 Albums to Look Forward to in Early 2012 2012-01-09T15:30:27Z Saqqara served as the necropolis for Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt for more than two millennia. Ancient Egyptian tombs yield rare find of mummified scarab beetles 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z In a recent interview with The Commercial Appeal, a Memphis newspaper, Mr. Batterson said that there had been concerns about the movie before this summer’s screening. Memphis Theater Cancels ‘Gone With the Wind’ Screening 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Marti is a Memphis townie whose indomitable hair is outshone only by her indomitable spirit. Cable girl: Lucy Mangan on Hellcats 2011-03-15T08:00:02Z He works in Memphis, near her home town, and he’s recently divorced. Review: ‘Before, During, After,’ by Richard Bausch He later was a replacement in “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” on Broadway and a longtime star in “Memphis.” Meet 4 breakout winners from the Tony Awards 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Wells went on to write exposés about school segregation and lynching in Memphis until she was forced to move to New York City for her safety. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z But she and Ms. Parnell, both from the Memphis area and then in their early twenties, did not pay much attention to each other. Finding Each Other in the Place They Had Always Been 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z “West of Memphis” doesn’t forget that this story has many victims — and that somewhere, a killer walks free. ‘West of Memphis’: a devastating walk-through of murder case 2013-03-14T20:58:23Z Berg signed on to direct "West of Memphis," which traces the 18-year history of the case and features interviews with Jackson and many witnesses and experts he and Walsh worked with. Jackson: Film saved life of West Memphis 3 suspect 2012-01-21T18:37:09Z Mr. Lewis was 21 in November 1956 when he walked into Sun Studio in Memphis and, presenting himself as a country singer who could play a mean piano, demanded an audition. Jerry Lee Lewis, a Rock ’n’ Roll Original, Dies at 87 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z "He was one of the cornerstones of the Memphis sound," Mitchell said. U.S. guitarist, 'Take Me to the River' co-writer Hodges dies 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Born in 1915 in Shaw, Miss., Edwards learned the guitar growing up and started playing professionally at age 17 in Memphis. Bluesman David 'Honey Boy' Edwards dead at 96 2011-08-30T00:32:17Z “You had a criminal element looking for things to steal,” said Terry Landrum, a deputy chief of the Memphis police department. From Blight to Bright Lights in Memphis 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Unlike other rock musicals in Midtown, including “American Idiot” and “Memphis,” this one doesn’t deliver big, clean, throbbing emotions. | 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson': Ideal President: A Rock Star Just Like Me 2010-10-14T02:01:00Z Several public performances of "Memphis" were shot in high definition, with the results edited for the upcoming broadcast. Broadway expands its stage with movie theater shows 2011-04-25T16:26:08Z He went missing on May 29, 1997, while swimming in the Wolf River in Memphis, Tenn. His body was recovered days later, and his death was ruled an accidental drowning. A new book from the long-gone Jeff Buckley 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Presley recorded his first song "That's All Right" at Sun Studio in Memphis in 1954 and made the West Tennessee city his primary home until his death. Cake-cutting, new exhibit mark Elvis' birthday 2013-01-08T21:31:04Z The video of his horrific lynching was recently released by Memphis authorities. Tyre Nichols and American traditions: How do we give kids "The Talk" about police now? 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Fellow blues singer Bobby “Blue” Bland, who had known and idolized Mr. King since their respective youths in Memphis, did two live albums with him in the late 1970s. B.B. King, Mississippi master of the blues, dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Rich Memphis soul — organ chords, deliberate triplet drums, pointed guitars — carries deep existential uncertainty in the latest Drive-By Truckers song, rooted in the pandemic and looking beyond it. The Blockbuster ‘Drivers License,’ a Possible Reply and 7 More New Songs 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z In the Broadway show "Memphis," Chad Kimball plays a lackadaisical guy who floats through jobs before wandering into the music biz. Broadway star is also a fashionista 2010-06-07T18:35:00Z When he picks up the phone at the band’s longtime home base, Ardent Studios in Memphis, he had just finished practicing drums for 90 minutes. Big Star's lost masterpiece finally gets its due 2013-06-27T21:39:00Z While in Memphis in late October I spent time at the New Ballet Ensemble and School, which Ms. Smythe founded and runs. Jookin in Memphis, Celebrated 2012-11-18T04:50:46Z It wasn’t just a reference to the song’s jubilant chorus but also recalled protest signs associated with the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike of 1968 when men hoisted up signs that read “I AM A MAN.” BET Awards 2015: Politics and nostalgia make it worth watching again 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z “When we were in Memphis, we got all our postcards at the Walgreens.” Are postcards a thing of the past? 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Indie Memphis has its own community icons, chief among them Shirley Williams, who has been serving drinks at the Lamplighter bar for nearly 40 years. 2010-01-29T05:08:00Z He worked for more than a month on the words, though other than some of his wife’s relatives, he claimed to have no specific connection to Memphis itself. 15 Essential Chuck Berry Songs 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Maurice White was born in Chicago on Dec. 19, 1941, and raised in Memphis in a family that included nine siblings. Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, dies at 74 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z These days, as the art form spreads around the country to shows in Memphis, Houston, Portland, Greenwich and Honolulu, there are classes to learn the basics. | Ephemeral Designs From the Flower Clubs of Philadelphia 2014-03-10T22:02:38Z The Memphis Business Journal initially reported the SEC filing's mention of the redevelopment plans. Graceland redevelopment plans scaled back 2011-03-10T01:44:11Z They are no longer airworthy, but have been on view for visitors at Graceland - Presley's Memphis, Tennessee estate - for the past three decades. Elvis Presley's personal jets could fetch more than $10 million 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z And Lauterbach likes the other central character in the book even better, that being Memphis itself. The Civil Rights Movement Photographer Who Was Also an F.B.I. Informant 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z He founded the famous Memphis barbecue restaurant Charlie Vergos Rendezvous where, in the late 1950s, he concocted a spice rub for pork ribs that combined Greek herbs, such as oregano, with traditional barbecue spices. Immigrants bring new touches to American barbecue. Just like they always have. 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z After Mr. Williams graduated from high school, he enrolled at the University of Memphis, from which he received a bachelor’s degree in economics. Opening Their Eyes to Art and Each Other 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Only then was West of Memphis born – Jackson seeing it as the best way to pressure the authorities. Peter Jackson's West of Memphis: the tale of three wronged men 2012-12-21T08:30:03Z Then, beginning in 1947, when a woman from Memphis earned the top honor, the fortunes of Southern contestants rose precipitously. Op-Ed Contributor: Racial Politics and Miss America 2013-01-16T00:57:43Z He was snapping up items by the controversial Memphis Group when dealers were practically giving the stuff away, revolted by their cartoonish shapes and oversaturated colors. The Ugliest Furniture in the World 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Wells began writing newspaper columns and purchased a share of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight. ‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Memphis made for a whole set of mixed messages for a girl with light brown skin. ‘Do you sometimes wish you were black?’: how my child and I talk about race 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z That said, seats for upcoming performances in Atlanta, Detroit and Memphis remain available. R. Kelly may be paying a financial price for those “Sex Cult” allegations 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Every image in “Memphis” quivers with a poetic intensity that captures the beauty and desolation of the urban South not pictured on tourist postcards. ‘Memphis,’ From Tim Sutton, Mixes Music and Mysticism 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z In 1980, a couple of years before my Memphis visit, the joint was sold. Smoke Signals: This July 4, go traditional with great regional side dishes Jackson and Walsh, makers of the “Lord of the Rings” films, became intrigued in 2005 by the idea of making a new documentary about the West Memphis Three. Filmmakers take up cause of West Memphis Three 2013-03-04T21:16:31Z He will be extradited to Memphis, Miller said. Official: Young Dolph slaying suspects have criminal history 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Steps away, in its own display case, rests the well-worn key used to operate a golf cart she would ride in with her father on the grounds of his Memphis home. AP: Lisa Marie Presley talks about new exhibit 2012-02-01T15:14:10Z I do these barbecue carrots in "Vegetable Kingdom," and then I pair them with white beans and some Memphis coleslaw. Bryant Terry says he just wrote his last cookbook—but this top chef hasn't finished leaving his mark 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Ms. Glover may not be a movie star, but she has become a Broadway star in “Memphis.” Predicting Winners of the Tony Awards 2010-06-10T23:18:00Z Tickets start around $50 and rise into the three digits for "Memphis," the touring Broadway musical at the 5th Avenue Theatre. Weekend preview: Cheap fun and pricier pleasures 2012-09-28T17:52:50Z Morby realized he’d finally nailed the track as he left Memphis after the album’s third and final session, which he repeatedly called “the best four days of my life.” Kevin Morby Chases Ghosts, and a New Album, in Memphis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Kirov previously served as associate conductor for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and music director for the Memphis Youth Symphony Program. Meet Stilian Kirov, SSO’s new associate conductor 2013-08-22T20:57:18Z Cleaning expert Debra Johnson at the Merry Maids headquarters in Memphis says gathering tools for the task is the first step. Cleaning and purging your fridge cuts waste and saves energy. Here’s how to do it. 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Of the West Memphis Three, who were teenagers at the time of the murders, Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison, and Echols was on death row. HBO reworks film in wake of West Memphis 3 verdict 2011-08-19T20:16:27Z Ms. Huey grew up along the Mississippi, arriving in New York in 1984 after graduating from the Memphis Academy of Arts. Camillia Huey, the ?Hired Gun? of Other Fashion Designers 2012-04-11T21:33:56Z Balancing the old and the new, the solo albums Ward and King recorded for Bible & Tire have helped to re-establish the gospel scene in Memphis. A Gospel Revival in Memphis Breathes Fresh Life Into Sacred Sounds 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z He portrayed the 21-year-old on the cusp of fame, at the turning point when the tender-faced kid from Memphis was becoming the King of Rock-and-Roll. Alfred Wertheimer, photographer of the young Elvis Presley, dies at 84 Coyne and the Lips will launch an attempt at the Guiness World Records mark for most live shows in 24 hours, playing eight concerts between Memphis, Tenn., and New Orleans on Wednesday and Thursday. Unbowed by Badu blowup, Coyne, Lips aim for record 2012-06-26T12:35:08Z With their confectionery colors and eccentric shapes, Memphis works — now stars at auction — are like cartoon versions of furniture. ‘The Memphis Group’ 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z “Your social status in the city of Memphis is directly correlated to the number of invitations you get to go to the various booths,” Holt said. Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z It sounded like a record that had been left under a couch in Memphis, not one made by a bunch of rich English guys at their Côte d'Azur hideaway. Mick Jagger rocks Cannes 2010-05-19T22:10:00Z The group previously produced the Tony Award-winning musical “Memphis” on Broadway, after a tryout run at the 5th Avenue. Seattle’s ‘First Date’ headed to Broadway 2013-03-07T15:52:29Z Unusually, Mr. Jones also sings on the recording, on a track called “Down in Memphis.” A Soulful Survivor With New Music to Make 2011-08-05T14:03:08Z McKinney said MacLeod first opened his house, now the No. 1 attraction in town, because tourists on the pilgrimage from Presley's birthplace to Memphis heard of his cache and came knocking. Elvis fan creates 'Graceland Too' shrine in Mississippi home 2011-07-19T23:00:46Z “Abet is famous for their laminates for the Memphis Group,” Mr. Bailey said about the postmodern Italian design movement that has enjoyed a 21st-century revival. Take My Indian Aluminum Spoons. Please! 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z King and was often the only white face at Club Handy, a nightclub on Beale Street in Memphis where many Black artists performed. Baz Luhrmann Is Ready for Rhinestones, Cadillacs, Dr. Feelgood and a Svengali 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Vered DeLeeuw, a Memphis recipe developer and creator of the Healthy Recipes blog, says it's all about making smart choices in the supermarket first. Toss that old paprika! What experts say you should do to build a better spice collection 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z Stanley believes they were lucky to not have locked the interior door in their garage that day because it helped neighbors to get Memphis out unharmed. Man rescues engagement ring, proposes after home burns down 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z By the time she decided to leave New York for Memphis, in 2017, so was Mr. Williams. Opening Their Eyes to Art and Each Other 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z The redeployment of classical forms echoes, very slightly, the playful juggling of historical motifs by the designers of the Memphis Group. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z That effort began in 1996 when the filmmakers first started digging into the horrific West Memphis child murders and the outsider teens convicted of the crimes. 'Whitey' documentary indicts more than just James J. Bulger 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Named after his Memphis ZIP Code — where he first learned his chosen movement language, the street dance of jookin — Buck unveiled a personal piece with music, again by Shaw, and his own text. Silky Ballet Solos and Irresistible Tapping Toes Close Fall for Dance 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Lee Hall's adaptation of the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love - currently playing at London's Noel Coward Theatre - won best new play, while Memphis the Musical was named best new musical. Miss Saigon dominates theatre awards 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z The museum exhibit is being presented by FedEx and Hard Rock Café and features a variety of rock-themed memorabilia on loan from Hard Rock Café in Orlando that’s never before been displayed in Memphis. Museum celebrates rock ‘n’ roll milestone 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z Klein met Presley in 1948 at Humes High School in Memphis and they were close friends until the rock n’ roll icon died in 1977. George Klein, Elvis Presley’s friend, radio host, dies 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z But she was overruled by her record label, which made the personal “Lights Out” — “Someone turned the lights out there in Memphis. That’s where my family’s buried and gone” — her debut single in 2003. Lisa Marie Presley on Elvis, Michael Jackson and Her Music 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z A laminated pass hung from her belt for concerts organized by Smith7, a Memphis label that also puts on drug- and alcohol-free shows for teenagers. Julien Baker Bravely Confronts Her Traumas and Fears 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z The commemorative stretch would be near Memphis, where Hayes had a home until he died of a stroke in 2008 at the age of 65. Tenn. may honor Isaac Hayes with section of I-40 2010-06-03T17:07:00Z Chilton had his first taste of fame with the Box Tops, the band he and his friends started in Memphis. Influential Big Star member Alex Chilton dies 2010-03-18T21:18:00Z The music overlaps Bach orchestral music with live singing of Moses Hogan’s “Elijah Rock,” performed by vocalists from the Hattiloo Theater in Memphis. Review: Ballet Memphis Shatters Basic Rules 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Hall received $20,000 and a signed and numbered print by the artist Willem de Kooning for her play “The Hurt Village,” about the problems of families in a decaying Memphis housing project. ArtsBeat: Katori Hall Wins Blackburn Prize for Outstanding Women Playwrights 2011-03-02T21:30:10Z And Craig’s, an hour and a half outside of Memphis, had set the minimalist bar: if a smoky kitchen, some bare tables and a no-nonsense one-person wait staff would do, why aim higher? Frugal Traveler: Memphis on the Cheap: Elvis, Barbecue and Baseball 2013-07-25T18:05:28Z Stax Records, from which the academy gets its name, died long ago, yet its legacy is still inspiring young people in the Memphis neighborhood where it was born. Stax's past influences future musicians in Memphis 2013-05-16T08:52:09Z JONESBORO, Ark. — The parents of one of three West Memphis, Ark., boys found dead 18 years ago want a documentary about the killings to be excluded from Academy Award consideration. Parents: No Oscar nod for film about Ark. killings 2011-12-01T02:53:09Z Baltimore’s Center Stage recently premiered a Bob Marley musical and “Soul: The Stax Musical,” about the famed Memphis recording studio. Perspective | Are jukebox musicals like ‘The Cher Show’ dumbing down Broadway, or just giving us what we want? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z When he was killed, the 36-year-old rapper was in Memphis to hand out Thanksgiving turkeys and visit a cancer center. Indiana man arrested in Young Dolph’s death; 2nd man charged 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z The family did not sign the card, but the envelope shows it was mailed from Memphis, Tenn., on March 6, 1978. Treasures: Still a hunk of burning love for Elvis 2011-03-21T19:18:36Z The Pollacks won by an impressive five and a half boards and will compete in the North American Pairs final in Memphis next month. Bridge: Celebrating With a Slam 2012-02-10T23:48:13Z Mr. Jackson, a producer of “West of Memphis,” helped pay for the DNA testing that helped persuade the State of Arkansas to back off. Books of The Times: “Life After Death,” by Damien Echols 2012-09-19T21:18:19Z Ward’s arrangement hit home for Mavis, who saw King in Memphis, the day before he was shot. How Mavis Staples’s New Record Got Made 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z A show in Memphis seeks to revive her legacy. Round-Up: Cuban heavy metal, Chicago tailgaters, the science of Koons 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z The civic pride of Memphis’s biggest barbecue contest. Sunday Reading: Culinary Journeys 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z He was a Tony nominee for his direction of “Memphis” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Jimmy Buffett’s ‘Margaritaville’ Musical Is Broadway Bound 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z But unlike his revolutionary punk predecessors, Ettore Sottsass, this design moment’s founder, certainly knew the rules he was breaking when the Memphis group debuted in Milan 40 years ago. How the Memphis Design Movement Made a Comeback 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z To soothe my indignation, I hurried home to blast the neighbors with that ageless masterwork, “Dusty in Memphis.” Theater Review: ‘Forever Dusty’ at New World Stages 2012-11-21T21:57:24Z Many environments — Beijing on a red-alert day, a smoky bar in Istanbul, a flowering arboretum in Memphis — stress the lungs. Suitcase GPS? Scented bags? Collapsible sunglasses? The latest travel gadgets. 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Agents last month raided Gibson factories and offices in Nashville and Memphis after seizing what they deem illegal Indian ebony wood shipped to the guitar maker. Feds: Gibson wood seizure linked to criminal probe 2011-10-05T20:32:10Z And Memphis is small enough, and welcoming enough, that you may meet someone in a bar one night and encounter that person at a party the next. 2010-01-29T05:08:00Z The Memphis Horns could sound soulful and romantic on one song, loud and rousing on another. Saxophonist Love dies; part of Memphis Horns duo 2012-04-13T22:19:07Z Even with its elite musical legacy, Muscle Shoals, Ala., has never quite gotten the same kind of accolades as Detroit or Memphis — that is, until recently. The Muscle Shoals Sound Finally Gets Its Due 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z He was speaking before the New York premiere of “Memphis Jookin’: The Show,” which he conceived, produced, helped choreograph and stars in. Review: From Lil Buck, History and a Chance to Flash Some Brilliance 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z An embalmer in Memphis had apparently stored the tools since 1977, but now hoped to let fans "own a piece of the celebrity themselves". Elvis Presley autopsy auction cancelled 2010-07-27T10:03:00Z The family moved to a farm in Mississippi and later to Memphis. Jesse Winchester, Writer and Singer of Thoughtful Songs, Dies at 69 2014-04-11T23:53:26Z Washington rap hero Wale and Memphis newcomer Snootie Wild made unannounced appearances, and both performed duets with Jeremih, an R&B lothario whose vocal delivery felt both sultry and efficient. MeccaFest is no Yardfest: Disorganization aggravates crowd’s discontented mood Lenny Sklarew is a likable young ne’er-do-well who lives in a deserted Memphis neighborhood nicknamed “the Pinch,” works in a failing used bookstore called the Book Asylum and deals drugs in a flourishing dive bar. ‘The Pinch,’ a magical new novel by Steve Stern 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z But the menu includes dishes from across the country, from the Memphis barbecue chicken to the New England clam chowder. Where to eat at MGM National Harbor: We taste all the top restaurants 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Many of the songs he wrote while living in exile from his native country touched on the facets of life he missed, among them “Yankee Lady,” “Mississippi You’re on My Mind” and “Talk Memphis.” Jesse Winchester, a songwriter’s songwriter 2014-04-15T17:43:59Z Memphis convinced me my guided-by-sugar mode of tourism is a sound one. Sampling Sweet Slices of Memphis Pies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The tutti-frutti palette, with jolts of turquoise, recalled the Memphis design movement. On the Runway: Days of Strangeness at Dior 2011-07-04T17:26:25Z Presley was born in Tupelo, Miss., on Jan. 8, 1935, and moved to Memphis with his parents at age 13. Cake-cutting, new exhibit mark Elvis' birthday 2013-01-08T21:31:04Z Logan Marshall-Green won me over as Mac, a Marine who returns from Vietnam to his home town of Memphis and winds up working as a hit man. The best TV shows of 2016: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ ‘Veep’ and ‘ The Americans’ lead the pack 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z He’s from Memphis, so there are ribs, chicken and brisket, too. They Welcomed Dozens for Thanksgiving. Now What? 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The following year, renegades begin chanting “Black Power,” and the South — all but Memphis, that is — sinks into the ocean, its descent illuminated by cities aflame North and West. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z In 2013, he performed at the White House, along with many of his fellow Memphis luminaries. An Underrated Soul Singer Returns 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z His compositions had a melancholy feel and narrative structure that veered close to country music and proved influential in Memphis and Nashville. William Bell, a Stax Records Team Player, Upholds and Extends 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Modern had recently severed ties with Sam Phillips, whose Sun Records studio in Memphis they had sometimes used, so Mr. Bihari created a makeshift studio at the local black Y.M.C.A. Joe Bihari, Who Put Early R&B on Record, Dies at 88 2013-12-12T02:47:20Z “The tragic shooting death of rap artist Young Dolph serves as another reminder of the pain that violent crime brings with it,” Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said in a statement. Rapper Young Dolph fatally shot at Tennessee cookie shop 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z But this charming, radical, deceptive meditation on rock 'n' roll, race, Memphis and America might be his most enjoyable, most thoughtful and most profound film, all at once. DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't 2010-07-24T15:01:00Z We’d drive southwest on Interstate 81, eating barbecue until we hit Memphis. Before the Wedding, a Test: 3,000 Miles of Barbecue 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z For my last pour, then, it seemed inevitable to cue up “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again,” from 1966’s “Blonde on Blonde.” Shelter from the Storm: A Review of Bob Dylan’s Whiskey 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z I have a lot of family in both Memphis and the Dallas area. Saeed Jones on "How We Fight For Our Lives" and writing with "skin in the game" 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z His photographic career abruptly ended by 1972 when he moved to Memphis to sober up after struggling with alcoholism for quite some time. On Set with Celebrity Photographer Jack Robinson 2012-01-18T15:18:12Z Berlinger and Sinofsky made three “Paradise Lost” films altogether, and the teenagers, widely known as the West Memphis Three, were eventually set free. In ‘Crime Scene,’ Joe Berlinger Investigates True-Crime Obsession 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z So there I was, in the middle of a stupefaction night in Memphis, looking at one of the earliest surviving Warhols. When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z In 1994, they were convicted of the brutal murders of three eight-year old boys, who had been found dead in a ditch in West Memphis, Arkansas, hogtied with their own shoelaces. Against all odds: the most incredible love story you'll read today 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Born and raised in Memphis, with a love for Delta blues, Ms. Fullman played clarinet in the school band for just one year. A Composer and Her (Very) Long String Instrument 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z "There was so much talent here, under circumstances that were almost considered impossible in Memphis, Tenn., in 1960 with the racial situation here," Stewart said in his first interview in at least 15 years. Stax's past influences future musicians in Memphis 2013-05-16T08:52:09Z Martin Luther King Jr. was leading his "Poor People's Campaign" when he was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. Tavis Smiley, Cornel West bring poverty-awareness tour to Seattle 2012-04-18T22:35:07Z Nowhere was this more evident than on their 1965 album “Berry Pickin’ in the Country,” a collection of bluegrass covers of Chuck Berry songs, including a chuffing take of “Memphis.” Jesse McReynolds, Lead Singer in Long-Running Bluegrass Duo, Dies at 93 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z The comparison with the mansion at Graceland in Memphis is stark. From Nashville to Tupelo on the Natchez Trace Parkway 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z News outlets report the deal involving the Memphis City Council was announced Tuesday. Elvis group, Tennessee city find deal in Graceland expansion 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z No cause of death was given, but TMZ quoted Jamison’s booking agent as saying he died of a heart attack at his home in Memphis, Tennessee… Jimi Jamison, Soaring Voice of Survivor, Dies at 63 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z On Sunday, Ms. Presley was at Graceland, her father’s estate in Memphis, to commemorate what would have been his 88th birthday. Lisa Marie Presley, Singer-Songwriter and Daughter of Elvis, Dies at 54 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z But, like we say, we're not sure if Rough Trade are going to make him pursue that sort of direction, not when they did so well with Bernard Butler's Duffy in Memphis thing. New band of the day ? No 779: Joe Worricker 2010-05-05T16:01:00Z Marc Gasol of the Memphis Grizzlies, for example, showed off his hook skills in this year's playoffs, but he is not known for them. Kareem and His Hook Shot Deserve a Statue 2011-05-20T08:40:00Z Memphis, TennesseeA&R serves tamales, bologna, and barbecue spaghetti, but the star is the sloppy chopped-pork sandwich, twitching with tangy slaw and bathed in a sauce that doesn't obscure the robust smokiness of the meat. The South's Best Butt: Top 20 Barbecue Joints & 'Cue-pons 2012-05-23T20:50:07.077Z “It’s who controls the transfer,” said Joris Drayer, an assistant professor of sports management at the University of Memphis who studies the ticket market. Scalping 2.0: Naming the Ticket?s Master 2010-06-05T20:42:00Z Dunn was a self-taught bass player who had been playing in bands with Cropper since they were both in high school together in Memphis. Donald 'Duck' Dunn dead at 70: A soul rhythm-section great 2012-05-13T23:40:00Z Early on in his career, a prominent photographer who worked a lot in the South, including Memphis, told Kha, “No one can make pictures of the South anymore, not after Eggleston.” A Photographer Frames His Own American South 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z The youngest of eight siblings, Joseph Bihari was born on May 30, 1925, in Memphis and moved several times as a boy. Joe Bihari, Who Put Early R&B on Record, Dies at 88 2013-12-12T02:47:20Z Police said two men exited a white Mercedes-Benz and fired shots into a Memphis bakery where Young Dolph, 36, was buying cookies and killed him. Warrant issued in Memphis slaying of rapper Young Dolph 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Debut album Memphis is released by Matador on 24 August. New band of the day ? No 813: Magic Kids 2010-06-22T15:05:00Z “There is no such thing as Memphis style,” he said. How the Memphis Design Movement Made a Comeback 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Lindsey was born in Lilbourn, Mo., and moved with his family to Memphis when he was 8; his precociousness as a teenage noisemaker got the Lindseys ejected from more than one address. 2010-01-15T06:03:00Z He plans to return later this year and visit Memphis, home to many of his influences, like Stax Records. Jake Bugg looking for new fans at Bonnaroo 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z In September 2016, Ms. Wilkerson was watching the movie “Alien” — a gift from her daughter — with her old buddy at his home in Memphis. Love Not Lost: Two Childhood Cancer Survivors Marry at St. Jude 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Memphis was almost shattered by pandemic more than a century ago. Kevin Morby Chases Ghosts, and a New Album, in Memphis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Fike was among five members of the group dubbed the "Memphis Mafia" who incorporated the name in the early 1990s. Lamar Fike, member of Elvis' 'Memphis Mafia,' dies 2011-02-19T00:24:08Z Officials with the Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County held a meeting to inform the public about changes in how the juvenile court in Tennessee’s largest county handles children who are charged with crimes. News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z For example, the “Create a protest sign” activity precedes a passage on the “I Am a Man” posters for the 1968 sanitation workers strike in Memphis. Hang It, Install It, Perform It — and Yes, Wear Your Art on Your Sleeve 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z He was a hit, and quickly became a popular disc jockey playing the blues on a Memphis radio station, WDIA. B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z In the meantime, the space will be used to sell food to go from Memphis Seoul, a Korean-Southern restaurant in Crown Heights. Seattle Chefs Anchor Restaurants at New Nordstrom in Midtown 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Cotton moved from Chicago to Memphis in the 1990s, after the death of his first wife, Ceola. James Cotton, hard-blowing harmonica master of the blues, dies at 81 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z On a Saturday in November hundreds of people of all ages savored the mild afternoon in a downtown Memphis hangout named Loflin Yard. From Blight to Bright Lights in Memphis 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z With more skill and care than originality, “Memphis Jookin’” mainly avoids the pitfalls. Review: From Lil Buck, History and a Chance to Flash Some Brilliance 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Young started his illustrious career in Memphis, where he was an in-demand session player working with acclaimed producer Chips Moman, and opened for the Beatles with the Bill Black Combo in 1964. Reggie Young, renowned guitarist for Elvis, Waylon, has died 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z He had also hosted radio and television shows in Memphis dating to the 1960s. George Klein, Elvis Presley’s friend, radio host, dies 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “This was the only kid that danced as much as he breathed, and I mean literally,” said Tarrik Moore, the owner of U-Dig Dance Academy in Memphis, where Lil Buck studied. Lil Buck Expands Jookin’s World 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z He’s an improviser, continuously remaking grooves from New Orleans, Memphis, reggae and the blues, and reacting instantaneously to guitar or vocal phrases. Music Review: An Old Hand Plucking At the Heartstrings 2010-11-19T06:00:00Z Of the best musical nominees, "Memphis" is most traditionally structured by Broadway standards, centering on a white DJ in the 1950s who champions a black female singer and falls in love with her. No Obvious Front-Runner in Tony Race 2010-05-04T18:24:00Z So, including Tulsa in a list of jazz hotbeds - New Orleans, Memphis, Kansas City, Chicago - seems arrhythmic. Okla. Jazz Hall has around $60K in unpaid bills 2012-09-24T19:21:08Z Ruby Wilson, the blues, soul and gospel singer known as the Queen of Beale Street, died on Friday in Memphis. Ruby Wilson, Singer Known as Queen of Beale Street, Dies at 68 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z “Memphis” and “Million Dollar Quartet” retell an old, now reassuring story: how early rock ’n’ roll breached barriers of race and class. Rock Music Becomes the Mainstay of Broadway Musicals 2010-05-14T23:36:00Z The planes were sold after Presley’s death, and were eventually purchased by OKC Partnership in Memphis. Graceland may remove Presley’s old airplanes 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z A documentary about the history and legacy of the Memphis music scene, as seen through the lens of creating an intergenerational compilation album. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The Boston Celtics — who have eight draft picks, including three first-rounders and the No. 3 selection — brought him in for a workout this week, as did the Memphis Grizzlies. Zhou Qi’s potential could lead to much NBA draft intrigue 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Yet all four Memphis pieces cheerfully and effectively smash this rule. Review: Ballet Memphis Shatters Basic Rules 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z What “Down in Memphis” doesn’t mention are some of the most remarkable details of Mr. Jones’s personal journey. A Soulful Survivor With New Music to Make 2011-08-05T14:03:08Z Celebrated as the father of color photography, Mr. Eggleston, 80, emailed from his hometown of Memphis, where he was staying temporarily with one of his sons. Artists Are Hunkered Down, but Still Nurturing Their Inner Visions 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Reacting to Modernism’s law that form follows function, Memphis designers embraced a shamelessly hedonistic, anti-rational aesthetic. ‘The Memphis Group’ 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Young Jojo is bad enough in that respect, but Memphis suffers the most. ‘The Life’ Review: Turning More Than a Few New Tricks 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Millennials in search of affordable housing are moving not just to hipster places like Seattle and Denver but to Memphis and Louisville. ‘The Next American City’ Review: A New Kind of Street Smarts 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z “Hattiloo is making a shift to be a main, if not the main player in black theater in the country,” Mr. Hattiloo told the Memphis newspaper The Commercial Appeal. Katori Hall Is Named Artistic Director of the Hattiloo Theater in Memphis 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z He also expressed frustration with how much the show highlighted his difficult circumstances, including "living couch to couch" in Memphis since he lost his home to foreclosure in 2007. Ex-'X Factor' singer says deal cut for his exit 2011-11-02T17:47:08Z Immediately following the shooting, Ellis placed another call and then began traveling back to Memphis. Man featured on reality TV show charged in nephew’s killing 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z On April 3, 1968, he came to Memphis on what was a fast return trip. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z In the original, "Memphis, Tennessee", rocker Chuck Berry is dialing long-distance information to get a number for 6-year old Marie, who it turns out is his daughter by an estranged wife or lover. Whatever happened to music's Jolene, Roxanne and Mrs Jones? 2013-09-04T12:16:03Z She traveled the South over several months interviewing witnesses and reading reports of similar events, which she published in the newspaper she co-owned and edited, The Memphis Free Speech and Headlight. Monument to activist, journalist Ida B. Wells unveiled 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z But where Jackson and one of the West Memphis Three, Damien Echols, are concerned, their documentary "West of Memphis" and this new testimony takes the fight further. Bullied as a kid, Peter Jackson fights back on film 2012-01-22T00:25:35Z Richard Branson announced last year that he was investing in a startup called Memphis Meats, which is developing lab-grown meat from animal cells as an alternative to animal agriculture, sometimes called “clean meat”. The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z “West of Memphis was a very fulfilling experience for me as a film-maker and a human being,” she says. From Serial to Bryan Singer: why Amy Berg is the documentarian to fear 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The broadcast was packed with musical performances from nominated shows, including "Memphis," the rhythm 'n' blues musical set in the American South in the 1950s, which won four Tonys, including best musical. Film stars captivate and capture Tonys 2010-06-14T15:02:00Z The abiding image - photos literally left at the end of the closing credits - is that of the other West Memphis Three, little boys who died horribly, for whom justice has not been served. Review: 'West of Memphis' seizes reins of justice 2012-12-21T16:20:22Z Yes, it follows a North Memphis high-school football team through the 2009 season, and there's plenty of sports action on those muddy fields. 'Undefeated' is an inspiring tear-jerker, even if you don't like football 2012-03-29T20:27:04Z “I would get made fun of. My ears were big when I was little, and I wasn’t from Memphis.” Lil Buck Feels the Dancing Spirit All Over Again 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z "Memphis Blues," released last June, debuted on the Billboard Blues Album Chart at No. 1 and remained there for 14 consecutive weeks. Cyndi Lauper singing the blues at NO's Jazz Fest 2011-05-06T13:01:05Z She also dug into the musical history of Tennessee, the Appalachians and the Deep South, from early blues singers like Memphis Minnie to Dolly Parton to the Memphis rap group Three 6 Mafia. The Time-Warped Charm of Valerie June 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z And on the album’s closer, the Memphis Slim tune “Mother Earth,” Ms. Victor — who with Mr. Nilsson will celebrate the release of “Bare” at Barbès in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on Sept. Music: A Style Lasting Beyond a Lifetime 2010-08-27T22:50:00Z Instead, Meyer drove alone back and forth from Nebraska to the University of Memphis, where he earned a bachelor’s in voice performance. How Congress nearly ruined a man’s quest to visit all national park sites in one trip 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Here is some of what Presley, who owned her father’s Graceland estate in Memphis, said about navigating her birthright of celebrity and fame: Lisa Marie Presley on Elvis, Michael Jackson and Her Music 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z At a news conference Wednesday evening, Memphis Police Director Cerelyn “CJ” Davis did not say if police think other shootings under investigation were related to the rapper’s killing. Police in Memphis hunt for suspects in Young Dolph’s killing 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Williams works as an actor based in Memphis; his recent credits include a recurring role in the Starz drama “P-Valley.” Opening Their Eyes to Art and Each Other 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z “In those days, before the computer,” ” he recalled to The Philadelphia Inquirer, “records had personalities. There was the Motown sound. The Memphis sound. The Muscle Shoals sound. And there was the Sigma sound.” Joe Tarsia, an Architect of the Sound of Philadelphia, Dies at 88 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The saga of the West Memphis Three is one of the most haunting true crime stories in American history. Serial: What to Watch, Hear and Read If You're Obsessed with the Podcast 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z It wasn’t long afterward that Hayes began sitting in with the group at Memphis club gigs, and leading the musicians through chord changes while he rhapsodized at length. Meet the Musicians Who Gave Isaac Hayes His Groove 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z West Point to the south of me, Memphis to the north. The Year in Poems 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Last month, Delta said it would cut 25 percent of its flights departing from its Memphis hub and is reducing capacity on some trans-Atlantic routes. Practical Traveler: Guide to Being Bumped (or Not) 2011-04-06T17:39:23Z Secrets abound in this story set in a primarily African-American Memphis megachurch. TV picks for March 15: ‘Greenleaf’ returns 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z There was a strong music scene in the Delta and in Memphis, and he thrived in it, playing on street corners and in juke joints. A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z But there’s no reason Huntsville can’t be as relevant as Memphis, Atlanta or Houston. Music Review: G-Side Makes New York Debut at Maysles Cinema 2010-08-22T22:30:00Z I knew I was likely safer there than in Memphis. Please tell me about your delayed flight 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Though Lil Buck and Prime Tyme are invariably responsive to their music, in “Memphis Born,” they and TipToe — dancing to Da Mafia’s “Go Hard” and G-Style’s “Gangsta” — were never musically revelatory. Vail International Dance Festival Features Seven New Works 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Only "Memphis," a 1950s interracial romance set against the backdrop of the rhythm 'n' blues explosion, and the much-maligned "Addams Family," based on the macabre New Yorker cartoon characters, fit the bill. Star megawattage could shine in the 2010 Tony noms 2010-05-04T12:00:00Z The letter from the Moores comes shortly after Pam Hobbs, Stevie Branch's mother, asked the state to reopen the case after she saw new evidence in "West of Memphis." Oscar nod for West Memphis 3 film angers parents 2012-01-24T19:21:13Z Had “Devil’s Knot” dared to spin out a bizarre conspiracy theory, the way Oliver Stone’s “JFK” did, it probably would have been more compelling than this workmanlike recapitulation of the so-called West Memphis Three case. Movie Review: ‘Devil’s Knot,’ Fictional Revisiting of West Memphis Crime 2014-05-08T22:58:26Z According to WREG, Malone is expected to continue to help Memphis with its vaccine rollout as the city gets more vaccines. Memphis Chick-fil-A owner advises city on COVID-19 vaccine lines 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z High-minded critics reviled Memphis design in its time. ‘The Memphis Group’ 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Dauphin Street is probably the closest thing Alabama has to musical meccas like Austin’s Sixth Street or Memphis’s Beale Street. Mardi Gras in Mobile — where it started 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z He had recently acquired a Beechcraft Model 18 airplane so he and his touring band, the Bar-Kays, could fly around the country to play shows on weekends, letting him regularly return to Memphis. The Enduring Power of Otis Redding’s ‘Dock of the Bay’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Around that time, Ms. Parnell launched a lifestyle blog called The Elle Aesthetic and left her job at the Memphis College of Art. Finding Each Other in the Place They Had Always Been 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The Memphis studio was owned by the legendary Sam Phillips, who discovered them all. Melissa Etheridge joins 'Million Dollar Quartet' 2010-06-11T21:31:00Z He died in Memphis on Aug. 16, 1977, and next year marks the 35th anniversary of his death. Spate of events scheduled for Elvis' birthday 2011-11-08T23:32:29Z For those who prefer their rock on the softer side and with a healthy dose of blues, singer-songwriter Marc Cowhn — best known for his hit “Walking In Memphis” — is headlining a near-ideal evening of music. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z He died of a heart attack on Aug. 16, 1977, in Memphis. Presley’s ‘Comeback Special’ still relevant, 50 years later 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Dwight reveres Memphis music and the Memphis way of life, but at times he is as weary and broken-down as the city he lives in. | 'Memphis Beat': On TNT, Jason Lee Plays a Cop With an Eye on Elvis 2010-06-21T22:32:00Z In Tim Sutton’s second feature, “Memphis,” the musician Willis Earl Beal plays a blues singer of the same name, who is facing a devastating artistic crisis—a composing and performing block. Richard Brody: Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Annual BAMcinemaFest 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Franklin was born March 25, 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in Detroit. 'Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin dies aged 76: AP 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Brown was a star athlete in high school in Memphis before playing center at the University of Texas. The Delay Game Was On 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Yet, he doesn't see himself as all that different than the kid who was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Justin Timberlake goes rogue for "In Time" 2011-10-27T16:53:47Z Still, Jim Holt, the president and chief executive of Memphis in May, said, “It’s going to cause a dramatic reduction of our usable space and capacity.” Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z The singer and pianist Memphis Slim — “one of the sophisticated blues guys that could keep one foot in the jazz world and one foot in the blues world,” he told Record Collector — became a favorite. Kim Simmonds, a Key Figure in the British Blues Movement, Dies at 75 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z At Memphis State University, he befriended two pianists, James Williams and Donald Brown, both of whom later preceded him in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Mulgrew Miller, Jazz Pianist, Dies at 57 2013-05-29T16:06:23Z “I started going to the Impalas’s practices, which were held at Willie’s house, in ‘61,” he told the Memphis Flyer in 2004. Teenie Hodges, genre-defining Memphis player, dies It stands to reason that Tupelo has a vibrant music scene; it sits squarely in the middle of the Americana Music Triangle that connects Nashville to New Orleans and Memphis. From Nashville to Tupelo on the Natchez Trace Parkway 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z During those years, Buck made a fortuitous and important connection with New Ballet Ensemble, a Memphis classical dance company. There's Madonna, Marsalis, Colbert and more: Why everyone is jookin with Lil Buck 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z After leaving Presley over a salary dispute in 1957, Mr. Moore ran recording studios in Memphis and later in Nashville, where he settled in 1964. Scotty Moore, guitarist on Elvis Presley’s groundbreaking Sun Sessions, dies at 84 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Like Mr. Coleman, he comes from Memphis, which he described as “a strange place to be born.” N.E.A. Jazz Masters Hail From Inside and Outside the Club 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Winners will be announced May 5 at a ceremony at the Renasant Convention Center in Memphis. Tommy Castro leads with 5 Blues Music Awards nominations 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Using jookin, the Memphis street form, the dancers continue their quest to promote peace through dance. Dance Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The Commercial Appeal of Memphis reported that a roommate had found him in bed, and the police have opened an investigation into his death. 2010-01-15T06:03:00Z And there is a cohesion to the Memphis aesthetic. Dee Dee Bridgewater Throws Herself a Memphis Soul Party 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z In Memphis in 1866, for instance, White mobs killed 46 African Americans over three days. Review | With his camera, Gordon Parks humanized the Black people others saw as simply criminals 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z In 1953, after completing two years of service, he returned to Memphis and resumed working as a bank clerk while playing fiddle in local country dance bands. Jim Stewart, Unlikely Entrepreneur of Soul Music, Dies at 92 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Ms. June, on the other hand, explores the forgotten trails that connect the blues of her native Memphis to the Appalachian country of groups like the Carter Family. Pop & Rock Listings for July 8-14 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z As longtime residents of the neighborhood, they remember when the space housed Memphis, a 1970s celebrity magnet. A Meaty American Menu on the Upper West Side 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z He also penned “Love and Happiness” with Green and teamed with other Memphis legends including his mentor Willie Mitchell and singer Isaac Hayes to craft a sound that’s easily identifiable and still influential. Teenie Hodges, genre-defining Memphis player, dies 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z If not for this series of films about the West Memphis 3, those men may well still be incarcerated and Damien Echols quite possibly dead. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Trudie Styler 2012-02-23T16:01:08Z After years in refugee camps, they were initially settled in big cities such as Atlanta and Memphis. As Maine goes, so goes the nation: Will this small city’s mayoral election predict a Trump victory in 2016? 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Greengrass's film, titled Memphis, will be shot in a docu-drama style similar to that of his acclaimed 9/11 project United 93. Forest Whitaker in talks to play Martin Luther King 2013-05-31T09:10:08Z Despite Jack’s “inaccessible strangeness,” she figures out that her brother is separated from the woman he loves, and that his daily letters to her in Memphis are returned unopened. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Yet once recruited by West of Memphis, she was persuaded to sign a deal forbidding contact with any other documentary. Peter Jackson's West of Memphis: the tale of three wronged men 2012-12-21T08:30:03Z Set in present-day Memphis, it focuses on two people who are just barely clinging to the margins. Review: Faith Found and Lost in ‘Free in Deed’ 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Handy was one of the first to use the term blues in a composition, “Memphis Blues” written in 1909 and published in 1912. What the blues sound like, all over the map 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z The exuberant musical "Memphis" led the list of winners at Sunday's ceremony held by the Drama Desk, an organization of theater journalists and critics. 'Memphis' wins 4 prizes at NY Drama Desk Awards 2010-05-24T06:31:00Z Mr. Wertheimer boarded a train with him for the journey back to Memphis. Alfred Wertheimer, photographer of the young Elvis Presley, dies at 84 Mr. Fordjour grew up in Memphis, a child of Ghanaian immigrants. From Derek Fordjour, a Sense of Abandoned Ritual 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Teenie Hodges, a guitarist and songwriter whose lithe touch on songs by Al Green and others helped shape the sound of Memphis soul in the 1970s, died on Sunday in Dallas. Teenie Hodges, Soul Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 68 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Thompson said to him, “Hey boss, when we done playing with these little papers, we gonna head down to Memphis and make sure justice is served down there, too, right?” ‘S.N.L.’ Spoofs Merrick Garland’s Hunt for Classified Documents 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z An induction ceremony is scheduled May 8 in Memphis, Tennessee. Franklin, Basie among new inductees to Blues Hall of Fame 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Forty years after Presley's August 1977 death in an upstairs bathroom at Graceland, his Memphis mansion, the revolution Bernstein identified unfolds still. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z He called the Memphis strike another step on the journey from “the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.” 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z JONESBORO, Ark. — The parents of one of three West Memphis, Ark., boys found dead 18 years ago are asking that a documentary about the killings be excluded from Academy Award consideration. Parents: No Oscar nod for film about Ark. killings 2011-12-01T12:58:09Z The label began to make its mark in 1960, shortly after Mr. Stewart and his sister moved their operations to the former Capitol Theater at 926 McLemore Avenue in South Memphis. Jim Stewart, Unlikely Entrepreneur of Soul Music, Dies at 92 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z It's a triumphant moment in "West of Memphis," one that likely would not have come to pass without the efforts of the filmmakers. Review: 'West of Memphis' seizes reins of justice 2012-12-21T16:20:22Z It doesn’t compare to similar-size companies in Oregon, Kansas City and Memphis, where I’ve spotted more interesting interpretive skills and more attention to the finish of a movement and to evoking feeling. What the Washington Ballet needs in a new director 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Parnell did some freelance writing about the food scene in Memphis for Blavity, a news and lifestyle website created by and for Black millennials. Finding Each Other in the Place They Had Always Been 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z After his time in the service Mr. Bland worked as a chauffeur, valet and opening act for his fellow Memphis rhythm-and-blues singer Junior Parker, just as he previously had for Mr. King. Bobby (Blue) Bland, Soul and Blues Balladeer, Dies at 83 2013-06-24T06:30:33Z The exercise left us all in a jovial mood, and I felt satisfied and filled with a heap of Memphis culture from all angles — the music, the history, the arts, the community — and the food. Graceland aside, there’s a King-size array of attractions in Memphis 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z “My parents left the promised land to jump into the lion’s den,” she said of their move from Chicago to Memphis to join the civil rights movement. Mining Memories to Preserve the Past 2011-02-22T00:00:04Z Presley was born in 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, about a hundred miles southeast of Memphis. Going to Graceland 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Two rivals with "Memphis" for best musical, "Fela!" and "American Idiot," won two Tonys apiece before the telecast — "Fela!" for costume and sound design, "Idiot" for lighting and scenic design. 'Memphis' wins Tony for best musical, 'Red' named best play, as stars add wattage to ceremony 2010-06-14T05:42:00Z “The Hurt Village” is based on a real housing project in Memphis that was torn down in about 2002, Ms. Hall said. ArtsBeat: Katori Hall Wins Blackburn Prize for Outstanding Women Playwrights 2011-03-02T21:30:10Z It will be one of 68 rare artefacts to be auctioned at his former home of Graceland in Memphis. First Elvis recording to be sold 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z So to hear the influential Memphis rapper reference a suburban Seattle thoroughfare on a song is kind of a trip and at least on some level a little validating. Seattle hip-hop is on a hot streak. Can it finally get the national respect it deserves? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Recent MLS expansion teams in Orlando and Atlanta have been big hits, and the league will soon add franchises in Cincinnati and Memphis. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Moran and her uncle spent many days at the Shelby County Archive, in Memphis, digging through land deeds, census data, and other documents dating back as far as a century. Photographing the Invisible 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Few chapters in Civil War history, or in U.S. history, are as dark as the Memphis race riot, or provide as much insight into the chasm of racial inequality in that era. ‘A Massacre in Memphis’: a day of shame in the River City 2014-01-08T21:54:41Z A Memphis movie theater’s announcement that it will discontinue its annual screening of “Gone With the Wind” over concerns that the film is insensitive has prompted a heated discussion online. Memphis Theater Cancels ‘Gone With the Wind’ Screening 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Cantu recalls clambering around in the back of a dark semitrailer near Memphis last year. Arcade a blast from the past 2011-03-16T05:00:00Z Thirty years after Memphis’s debut, heavily hyped parties, elaborate publicity campaigns, mediagenic portraits and expensive, impractical furniture are stock elements of the design scene. Design: Postmodern, but Not Especially Proud of It 2011-09-11T13:06:04Z The La Jolla Playhouse will begin its new 2014-15 season with a workshop production of "Chasing the Song" from the songwriters of "Memphis," and a production of the Chinese drama "The Orphan of Zhao." 'Frozen' songwriters to debut new musical 'Up Here' in La Jolla 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z One of the nation’s newest cycle tracks just opened in Memphis. New landscape is planned for Tysons Corner to make it more friendly to walking, cycling Perhaps Mr. Egoyan, being Canadian, did not realize the degree to which Americans are experiencing West Memphis Three fatigue. Movie Review: ‘Devil’s Knot,’ Fictional Revisiting of West Memphis Crime 2014-05-08T22:58:26Z Across the street is the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, which his wife, Coretta Scott King, established after Dr. King was assassinated on a motel balcony in Memphis. Atlanta for Kids 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z To celebrate the Nordstrom exhibit, Pintrill has miniaturized a handful of the most lust worthy Memphis design pieces and turned them into pins. Memphis Milano Returns, and Takes Over Fashion 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z These were the signs carried in the sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, the one that King went to support when he was assassinated. For Glenn Ligon, Home Is Where History and Friends Are Inspirations 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z He told The Commercial Appeal in Memphis that when he learned of his Oscar nomination, he was so excited that he “could have taken on Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield and the Rock.” Michael Clarke Duncan, Actor, Dies at 54 2012-09-04T01:04:04Z Growing up in Memphis, Ms. Baker, an only child, attended church with her mother and father, with whom she’s still close. Julien Baker: Sad Songs That Whisper and Howl 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Whether we were from Jackson, Memphis, Birmingham or Atlanta, they called us country. City Summer, Country Summer 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z It's a one-act piece with a haunting undercurrent based on the true story of events in Memphis in 1993 surrounding a single mother and her young son. Tristan And Yseult, Fences, Widowers' Houses: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-06-15T04:59:01Z A statement from his publicist says the 83-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer had a stroke Thursday night and is recuperating in Memphis. Rocker Jerry Lee Lewis suffers stroke, expected to recover 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z It's all madcap and camp to begin with, as the captain arrives on board to Walking in Memphis and the crew dance past the passengers, stopping momentarily to boogie with them. SS Arcadia 2010-05-21T21:30:00Z Her breakthrough came in 1937, at age 15, when the popular jazz violinist Joe Venuti, then leading a dance band, came to Memphis and hired her for his dates at the city’s premier hotel. Kay Starr, ferociously expressive singer who had pop hit with ‘Wheel of Fortune,’ dies at 94 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z At one point, the brothers went to perform at a showcase in Memphis over the protestations of their mother. Out of Left Field, but Swinging Hard 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Winners were chosen by members of The Blues Foundation, based in Memphis. Copeland, Ingram among winners of Blues Music Awards 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z The placement of Nichols’s images along a busy street also seems pointed, since he was chased and beaten by Memphis police officers after being pulled over for a traffic stop. Tyre Nichols’s Photography Will Soar on Desert X Billboards 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z It's the story of two Memphis cops; one good, one bad. 'The Grace Card': a hard-to-swallow tale of redemption 2011-02-24T20:38:06Z Four will get you on the Zippin Pippin, a roller coaster that used to rest in Memphis, but was moved here in 2011. 36 Hours in Green Bay, Wis. 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The attempt to bridge seemingly unbridgeable divides – between being black and jewish, his mum and dad, singing and rapping, Toronto and Memphis – is one obvious starting point for Drake's musical quest. Streets takeover: Charting Drake's progress 2011-02-07T12:37:43Z Unlike "Memphis," which was edited from five performances, the screen version of the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" wasn't spliced together. Broadway comes to movie screens 2011-06-08T21:45:05Z Ms. Bridgewater was referring to the recently released album “Memphis … Yes I’m Ready,” a tribute to the rich soul tradition of the city where she was born. Dee Dee Bridgewater Throws Herself a Memphis Soul Party 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Presley paid $4 to record the two songs at the Memphis Recording Service, a studio run by Sun Records, on July 18, 1953. Elvis's First Recording Up for Auction 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Hellhound appears at the same time a documentary, Road to Memphis , airs on the American Experience series on PBS. Book Review: Rev. Martin Luther King's Assassin 2010-04-29T14:56:00Z The George Clooney-produced Memphis Beat has all the flavour, confidence and eccentricity that Rookie Blue lacks. Jonathan Bernstein's Aerial View of American TV 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z But “Memphis,” the rock-’n’-roll-and-soul story of a mid-20th-century romance between a white man and a black woman in Tennessee, is a fairly intimate musical, so the decision was made to keep projections subtle. The Screen?s Now Setting Many a Stage 2010-03-04T19:34:00Z One of those talents was Ms. Dallas, who was born in 1925 in Memphis and got her start tap dancing on tables in nightclubs on Beale Street. She Learned From Katherine Dunham. At 93, She’s Teaching Her Technique. 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Memphis details and results can be found at acbl.org. Bridge: Spring North American Championships in Memphis - Bridge 2012-03-14T22:49:46Z Twenty minutes from Downtown Memphis at the Germantown Commissary, Walker Taylor, the owner, boasts that his is one of few barbecue establishments that prepare their own desserts. Sampling Sweet Slices of Memphis Pies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Described as an “African and Native American spiritual church,” it was founded in Memphis by Washington Harris, known as Doc, in 1960. Review: A Strange and Wonderful View of Outsider Art 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The rapper had loyal fans in Memphis, where they admired him for his success and love for the city. Police in Memphis hunt for suspects in Young Dolph’s killing 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Cropper went to a Memphis studio known for producing jingles and recorded sound effects of sea gulls and ocean waves. A low-key Memphis guitar legend builds on musical legacy 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Martin — the shacks of North Memphis look poetically disheveled as shot from a moving car — but it is telling that the coach emerges as the “star” of this documentary. Undefeated: Oscar Night Lights? 2012-02-17T11:58:49Z Tellingly, their central characters are not the musicians but their promoter-exploiters: a fictional white disc jockey in “Memphis”; Sam Phillips, the producer and owner of Sun Records, in “Million Dollar Quartet.” Rock Music Becomes the Mainstay of Broadway Musicals 2010-05-14T23:36:00Z “We do a lot of box-checking in Memphis. You say, ‘We’re going to talk to people,’ and you come out with the plan you had going in.” Will World-Class Architecture Bring Civic Pride Back to Memphis? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Moman left Memphis in 1972 and tried to start again in Atlanta, but when that didn't work out, he moved to Nashville. Elvis Presley producer Lincoln 'Chips' Moman dies at 79 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Bruce Brandwen of Broadway Worldwide said he hoped to recoup when “Memphis” was shown in China. ‘Of Mice and Men,’ From Broadway to Movie Screens 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z “I guess we made it!” soul singer Al Green said from Memphis. Honors Class of ’14: Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Lily Tomlin, Sting No arrests have been made in the killing, which stunned Memphis and shocked the entertainment world. Span of Memphis street renamed for slain rapper Young Dolph 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The trio began as a gospel outfit, but all that changed when they auditioned for Sam Phillips, the boss of Sun Records, in Memphis. Marshall Grant obituary 2011-08-08T17:31:59Z He even performed for three years in front of tens of thousands as part of the Memphis Grizzlies’ junior dance team. Meet the rising stars of ‘West Side Story’ on Broadway 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z |
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