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1 week ago | 
memphismagazine.com | Abigail Morici
Silent Sky
Theatre Memphis
Friday, April 18, 7:30 p.m. | Saturday, April 19, 2–4 p.m.
Theatre Memphis puts on this show about 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, whose scientific discoveries were rejected in her time. Tickets ($28.25) for the final two performances can be purchased here.
Saint Joan
Tennessee Shakespeare Company
Friday, April 18, 8:30 p.m. | Saturday, April 19, 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
George Bernard Shaw chronicles the plight of Saint Joan.
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1 week ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Abigail Morici
Gabrielle Yasmeen began her photography discipline on disposable cameras, taking pictures of her school friends on the bus. She wouldn’t have called it a discipline then. It was about capturing memories. Her family lived outside of Memphis, and this was her way of feeling like she was a part of something, of her friends’ story, of her story.
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2 weeks ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Abigail Morici
Plant SalesThis weekend is for the plants.
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2 weeks ago | 
memphismagazine.com | Abigail Morici
Plant Sales
This weekend is for the plants.
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3 weeks ago | 
memphismagazine.com | Abigail Morici
Tennessee Ballet Theater presents The ICON: Babbie Lovett, Fashion Legend
McCoy Theatre at Rhodes College
Friday-Saturday, April 4-5, 7:30 p.m. | Sunday, April 6, 2:30 p.m. | Friday-Saturday, April 11-12, 7:30 p.m.
The Tennessee Ballet Theater honors the life and legacy of Babbie Lovett, the 92-year-old fashion icon who’s made her mark on Memphis, modelling, producing fashion shows, owning stores, mentoring, and much more, with a ballet.
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3 weeks ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Abigail Morici
April showers bring April festivals, and then there are May festivals, and June ones, and July and August. And we don’t even have time to get to September. That’s right, friends (may we call you that?): It’s time for the Spring Fairs & Festivals Guide. AprilMonth of Jazz at Crosstown ArtsA monthlong celebration of jazz. Crosstown Arts, various dates through April 30 Memphis Tattoo Festival (Photo: Courtesy Memphis Tattoo Festival)Memphis Tattoo FestivalIf you can dream it, you can tat it.
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3 weeks ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Abigail Morici
As Ellen Daughtery, the Dixon Gallery & Gardens’ assistant curator, prepared the current exhibition on display — “Floyd Newsum: House of Grace” — Newsum, who was based in Houston, told her the show felt like a homecoming. He grew up here, went to Hamilton Elementary and Hamilton Junior and Senior High Schools, and graduated from the Memphis Academy of Arts (later Memphis College of Art) in 1973.
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4 weeks ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Abigail Morici
Memphis dogfluencer Sir Meatball is turning 7, and all (including leashed pups) are invited to his birthday party this Saturday at Grind City Brewing Co. The theme: Dogchella. “It’s a play on Coachella,” says bulldog Meatball’s mom Mary Lauren Stewart. Saturday’s event will be their third, after last year’s hiatus while their family got ready for their new addition: a baby.
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4 weeks ago | 
memphismagazine.com | Abigail Morici
Trolley Night
South Main Arts District
Friday, March 28, 6 – 10 p.m.
Trolley Night is back, baby! Explore galleries, restaurants, bars, and shops all open late with activities on the street. Get complimentary drinks and snacks, hear live music, check out the Women’s Month Maker Market & Art Exhibit at Stock&Belle, and much more. For a fuller list of deals and steals, go here.
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1 month ago | 
memphisflyer.com | Abigail Morici
Danielle Sierra’s father used to look at her through his “supernatural telescope.” He would be back home in California, while she was in Memphis, sharing her artwork with him over the phone and the internet. “He would always tell me, ‘I’m looking through my supernatural telescope at all the marvels of you,’” Sierra says.
