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"I love the hunt," Memphis artist Jeri Ledbetter says about the thought process that goes into her boldly abstract canvases. "When I go anywhere, I look for the interesting part of where I am," she says. "And it's never the whole. There's always a corner or something hidden, especially places that most people don't go to look for beauty." Her solo show at L Ross Gallery runs through Nov. 30. Full story »

Don't overlook the side exhibit at the Dixon. Titled "Voices of a New South," the collection of two dozen pieces by four contemporary African-American artists from Memphis is as eye-popping in its own way as the main event. Full story »

This weekend’s Memphis Symphony Orchestra engagement offers a diverse trio of hefty works by John Adams, Beethoven and Dvorak. It’s also a chance to check out guest conductor Mei-Ann Chen, the third of three candidates to audition for the job held by retiring music director David Loebel. The popular Dvorak Cello Concerto, to be performed by guest artist Julie Albers, was already set when Chen got the guest conducting assignment. Full story »

When I first moved to Memphis from Florida, I arrived in a city of wonderful accents. I gleefully began studying them, learning that there was no such thing as a generic "Southern" accent. One would think that this knowledge of variable accent acquisition would have aided my viewing of "The Seafarer" at Circuit Playhouse, a darkly comic play set on a Christmas Eve in Dublin, Ireland. Full story »