Chris McCoy

2 days ago | memphisflyer.com | Chris McCoy

When Steve Hirsh and Friends take the stage at the Green Room at Crosstown Arts, they will have something in common with the audience. You won’t know what songs they’re going to play, and they won’t know either! Hirsh will make the long drive from his home in Bemidji, Minnesota, to play with a group of Memphis’ finest “free” musicians, all of whom have embraced extemporaneous music-making for years.

4 days ago | memphisflyer.com | Chris McCoy

Bruce Newman, folk singer/songwriter, host of WEVL’s Folk Song Fiesta, and frequent friend of Music Video Monday, is also a burner. Every year he makes a pilgrimage to Burning Man, the week-long art and music festival held in a remote desert. Around 80,000 people gather on a dry lake bed outside Gerlach, Nevada, during Labor Day week to build Black Rock City.

1 week ago | memphismagazine.com | Chris McCoy

For the current owner of this Victorian Village home, it was love at first sight. “I pulled up immediately and went, ‘Wow!’ That was my first reaction when I stepped out of the car,” says Jerred Price. “I saw a three-story, 1800s brick home that no one had lived in since the 1960s. It had been other things since then. It had been a restaurant. It had been a law office. And during [Hurricane] Katrina, they even had bunk beds in here. There were bars on all of the windows.

1 week ago | memphisflyer.com | Chris McCoy

Ryan Coogler has proven himself to be one of the great masters of genre films. Every time he’s tried a new kind of film, he has mastered it and made it better. In 2015, he made the Rocky spin-off Creed, starring his friend and frequent collaborator Michael B. Jordan as the son of Rocky’s frenemy Apollo Creed. It was, incredibly, better received than Sylvester Stallone’s attempt to revitalize the inspirational sports picture he had pioneered. Remember 2005’s Rocky Balboa? Of course you don’t.

1 week ago | memphismagazine.com | Chris McCoy

With no more ice storms in the forecast, and summer vacation still out of reach, a weekend day trip might be just the ticket to clear your head but not your wallet. When we’re looking for a change of scenery, we often find ourselves steering toward the smaller gems of Mississippi: Greenville, Tupelo, Corinth, and even (wonderfully named) Yazoo City. Tupelo Tupelo’s most famous son is, of course, Elvis Aaron Presley, and many places in this North Mississippi town are dedicated to his memory.