Memphis Flyer

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 | 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.

1 week ago | memphisflyer.com | Michael Donahue

Google describes the Irish Queen Maeve, who is believed to have ruled in the first century A.D., as “a warrior of great strength, resilience, and at times, ruthlessness. With a name said to mean ‘intoxicating,’ it is certain that she wielded enormous power and sway during her reign.”All of which sounds like a great name for an Irish drinking establishment. And that’s what DJ Naylor is calling his new restaurant/bar.

1 week ago | memphisflyer.com | Alex Greene

he opening scenes of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan, the latest production by Tennessee Shakespeare Company, may be disarmingly light for some theatergoers. Many of us, myself included, tend to imagine the story of Joan of Arc in the direst possible terms — we all know it ends with her being burned alive, after all. And the first few minutes of the play depict just that, as if to remind us what’s at stake before the narrative begins in earnest.