Joe Lewis is living testimony to the fact that you can dramatically alter your life at any time, even on a whim.

Alex Botwin is a familiar figure to Memphis music audiences.

Cartoons are crowd-pleasers — and sometimes they're works of art, too, with appeal for adults and children alike. For proof, see this year's "Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts" program at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. All five of the nominated ...

Valentine's Day is Tuesday, and area romantics are providing Memphians a number of ways to mark the occasion, beginning Froiday. Here are some special events:

While other 15-year-olds are preparing for homecoming or counting the weeks to spring break, Jacob Latimore is at a dance studio in his adopted hometown of Atlanta, Ga., polishing his moves. He's about to head out on the new leg ...

Seattle group The WIRED Band! and Arkansas-based singer-songwriter Ray Bonneville were the big winners in the Blues Challenge. The five-day blues competition and event culminated Saturday night with finals at Downtown's Orpheum, capping a week of shows in and around ...

During the 54th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 12, the Recording Academy will take a moment to honor a man whom many consider one of the greatest voices not just in country music, but in music, period. But once again, ...

Headlining a national concert tour for the first time would seem to be a stressful proposition, but the members of the New York City-based rock quartet MeTalkPretty seem relaxed on a recent day between shows in Houston and Dallas. "We're ...

Thundering skies did not dampen the spirits of 2,000 performers and patrons who crowded Downtown for the International Blues Challenge.

Grammy nominated jazz organist Joey DeFrancesco has been one of music’s young guns ever since he emerged on the scene at the tender age of 17. Then, having come from nowhere to claim the mantle of the great Jimmy Smith ...

"For music fans, finding something new is always the holy grail," says Blues Foundation president Jay Sieleman. Over the next week, blues aficionados will have plenty of chances for discovery as Beale Street and its neighboring Downtown environs will be ...

Given the cinematic sweep of the group's music, it is no surprise that the enigmatically named CT, lead singer of the Little Rock heavy metal band Rwake, is an unabashed moviegoer.

Unusual for a city its size, Memphis can lay claim to being a player in a variety of musical genres -- the familiar trio of blues, rock and soul, of course, but also gospel, heavy metal and even jazz. But ...

The clubs along Beale Street are filled with seasoned performers who have been honing their craft for decades in one of the most demanding musical settings around. So it was something of a surprise recently when the Beale merchants bestowed ...

Even six decades into his career, the peculiar thrill of writing a song has not diminished for Loudon Wainwright III. “It’s still the most mysterious and exciting aspect of the job,” Wainwright says. “The moment when you actually get one. ...