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Admit it. You know you think about it every year. It might hit you when you're grocery shopping, stuck behind the woman determined to use expired coupons. Or when you remember that you forgot to thaw the turkey. Or even ...

Self-taught, second-generation Memphis musician Paul Taylor began forging his own path years earlier, playing bass in bands like DDT and Big Ass Truck and backing up a staggering array of local artists ranging from the late guitar genius Shawn Lane ...

Cody Dickinson was born into the music business. The Southaven, Miss., resident is the son of producer/session musician James Luther Dickinson. He and his elder brother, Luther, formed their first band in elementary school before launching the critically acclaimed DDT ...

Midtowner Alicja Trout made her musical reputation via the Clears, her late 1990s synth-pop group, and solidified her status with Lost Sounds, which, from 2000 to 2004, pushed the boundaries of punk rock to darkly maniacal heights.

Ben Nichols made a name for himself as the front man of the Little Rock pop-punk outfit Red Forty. On this side of the Mississippi, the gravelly-voiced singer played in the short-lived punk band Vegas Thunder before co-founding Lucero with ...

With his unassuming demeanor, Jack Yarber easily blends into the Midtown music scene, even as he’s revered as a cult hero on the international garage rock circuit. Yarber moved to Memphis from Corinth, Miss., in the mid-1980s, after forming that ...

An enigmatic drifter who turned up in Memphis in the late 1990s, Harlan T. Bobo quickly fit into the Midtown garage rock scene. He’s a capable sideman in groups like Viva L’American Death Ray Music, Love Clowns and Limes, but ...

Although he’s a filmmaker by trade, Craig Brewer, 38, is well versed in the legends and lore of Memphis’ music scene. His debut independent feature “The Poor & Hungry,” a winner at the 2000 Hollywood Film Festival, was a story ...

A hair pick, a used Q-tip, keys, aluminum flip tops, razor blades, and canceled stamps: artist Frank D. Robinson has tapped a waste-strewn urban milieu to create "Revolution Before Revelations ... Featuring Thug-Jesus!" on display at Memphis Theological Seminary's Great ...

While dogs are ubiquitous denizens of the modern world, Beth Edwards elevates canine art to a higher plane, as evidenced in "A Dog's Life" at Memphis College of Art's Rust Hall. Although none of her own work is included in ...

Full moons and ramshackle structures dominate "Recent Work," John Robinette's current exhibition at Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects on Union Avenue. The 64-year-old painter and illustrator's Mississippi Delta-themed work has evolved significantly over the last decade. The iconic imagery -- tumbledown ...

Red track lighting is suspended from the ceiling of the narrow gallery space at Memphis College of Art's on the street gallery at 338 S. Main. The light bathes Tom Lee's series of five larger-than-life vignettes in a warm, rosy ...

At 17, Brittany Ann Tranbaugh will be one of the youngest artists to perform at the International Folk Alliance Conference when she takes the stage during Thursday’s “Performance Alley” concert series, which also features folk superstars Roger McGuinn, Charlie Louvin ...

In "Work and Play," his second exhibition at L Ross Gallery, Virginia-based illustrator Mike Caplanis initiates droll, pithy commentaries about American pop culture. Caplanis, an advertising agency veteran who has contributed illustrations to newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, ...

Standing in the lobby of Memphis College of Art, surveying the pieces on exhibit for the 17th annual "Works of Heart Valentine Auction," Murray Riss announced, "Corny doesn't work. And, if it's sentimental, it better have substance. Straight-out love doesn't ...

If grit and hard work paid off as they should, local rapper RI'm Skeem would already be a star. The 24-year old Whitehaven native has patiently spent the past four years forging connections within the music industry and running a ...

Walk out the door of Power House Memphis and you can just glimpse the wreath on the balcony of the National Civil Rights Museum, which stands a mere 1,500 feet away. This weekend, just in time for Black History Month, ...

With his acumen for fiendish plots and suspenseful sounds, Memphis rapper Lord Infamous is like Bela Lugosi, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stephen King all rolled up into one. An upcoming album, After Sics, which will be released on his own Black ...

"Conversations In Iron," which opens today at the National Ornamental Metal Museum, highlights the fact that, although few Memphians realize it, the institution is considered a Mecca for metalsmiths. In fact, the roots of this three-man art exhibit are intertwined ...

Seventeen-year old Raheym Jones, a junior at Central High School, will spend the majority of this weekend transforming his mother's Whitehaven banquet facility, Top of the Line Banquet and Reception Hall, into his dream nightspot, Club Dejavu. "It's not going ...

"A Window to the West," which opens in the Beverly and Sam Ross Gallery at Christian Brothers University tonight, highlights Samuel Nichols' post-Jantzen retirement years, time he spent exploring the hinterlands of Oregon and Arizona before coming back to Memphis ...

Over the last 16 years, Marshall Arts, 15,000 square feet of studio and exhibition space, has evolved into a creative laboratory on par with any alternative art space in the country.

"Twin: Jerry and Terry Lynn, Recent Works," which opens at David Lusk Gallery Friday night, is a revelation. The artists -- 33-year-old identical twin brothers Jerry and Terry Lynn, who paint as one, intuitively working and reworking the same canvas ...

When laying the groundwork for "ARTifacts," which opens at Perry Nicole Fine Art tonight, gallery owners Nicole Haney and David Smith issued a challenge to their artists: "Create a new piece of work and provide with it an object of ...

With "It Came From Memphis," exhibited at D'Edge art gallery through the end of January, painter George Hunt tackles personal iconography that has taken him a lifetime to collect. "My grandparents were itinerant sharecroppers in Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas," says ...

"Signs," the collection of 11 William Christenberry photographs on display at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, tells dual stories for fans of the disappearing American South. It's tempting, but unfair, to compartmentalize these landscapes, shot during the 1970s and ...

Crunchy Black's appearance at the Hi-Tone Café tonight has been a long time coming. It's been nearly three years since his highly publicized split from Three 6 Mafia, and were it not for a new song, "R U Ready," getting ...

Mississippi and mythic monsters figure largely in painter Allison Furr-Lawyer's work, currently exhibited at D'Edge Gallery on South Main. The Jackson, Miss., native, a recent transplant to Memphis, taps into a visual storytelling style illustrative of the tales spun by ...

Earlier this week, Memphis musician Harlan T. Bobo and his French-born fiancée, Anne Ciriani, sat in a cold Midtown house that they’d turned into a temporary workshop. The home, which belongs to Bobo’s cellist, Jonathan Kirkscey, was mid-renovation. Wallpaper hung ...

The evolution in Maysey Craddock's work is astounding. "Pieces of Sky," the Memphis-born artist's fifth show at David Lusk Gallery in 10 years, abandons the whimsy of her early work to distill emotion and spirituality in often simplistic gouache images. ...

As Jim Hardy, the hero of Irving Berlin's 1943 film "Holiday Inn," Bing Crosby cut a dashing figure who was apt to don a tuxedo before trimming the Christmas tree. Judging by my own choices of holiday garb, times are ...

Thirty-year-old Hickory Flat, Miss., resident Cedric Burnside has a big weight resting on his muscular shoulders. Since the 1990s, Burnside has been perfecting his version of hill country blues, a music practiced in North Mississippi for the last half-century. Tonight ...

On Tuesday, Ramon Sampson learned what it's like to be a rock star: He climbed into the back of a stretch limousine that was awaiting his arrival at the Houston airport.

With "Flow," her current exhibition at Perry Nicole Fine Art, New Orleans-based artist Allison Stewart has created a moody, metaphysical world out of simple doodles, splatters, and splashes of paint. "Flow," which opens today and will be on display through ...

Over the last few weeks, a group of local artists have been working overtime to transform the former site of the Humane Society at 2238 Central into a showplace for their work. Tonight, the Made in Memphis arts collective will ...

Natural rhythms, internal and external, are at the heart of Fusion of Dimension, a group exhibition on display at the Buckman Art Center's Levy Gallery through Dec. 18. Louisiana-born, Memphis-based painter Jana Travis, an assistant professor of art at Christian ...

Imagine this: The band you've invested more than a decade into goes on hiatus, so you form a new group. Then, after you've booked a high-profile tour, your guitarist announces he can't do the majority of the dates. What do ...

Massive. That's the only way to describe "The Baroque World of Fernando Botero," currently on exhibit at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Many of the paintings and sculptures, all culled from the Colombian painter's personal collection, are physically huge, ...

On Tuesday morning, Sally Hughes Smith left her home in Charleston, S.C., in a Grand Caravan loaded with 50 framed canvases destined for Askew Nixon Ferguson architectural firm in Midtown Memphis. "Perpetual Light," which is Smith's fifth one-woman show at ...

Jed Jackson’s paintings were made for these times. As evidenced by “Toujours L’Audace,” Jackson’s solo exhibition at the Dixon Gallery through Nov. 16, the painter, and chairman of the art department at the University of Memphis, excels at satire, sly ...

Realism vs. romance, with the 1848 European Revolutions as a backdrop: As evidenced by "Road to Impressionism: Barbizon Paintings from the Walters Art Museum," now at the Dixon Gallery, beauty is where you find it. The Barbizon School -- a ...

From the colorful sports jerseys that hang on a panel of lockers to the attention-grabbing vehicles parked on the museum floor, the exhibition space at the Children’s Museum of Memphis is awash in primary hues. The redecoration is the result ...

Big Cizer, a.k.a. 34-year-old William Hubbert, hopes that tonight's All Unda Ground Awards will unify the major players on the local underground rap scene.

There are plenty of would-be MCs and producers out there, struggling to get their voices heard. Kelvin Hardaway, 28, decided to be seen instead, employing his graphic design skills to forge a solid reputation in the urban music scene.

Tuesday afternoon, several city of Memphis employees stood outside 2571 Broad Ave. in Binghamton, hard at work repairing a drainage collection box and pouring a new, wheelchair accessible curb. "They're busting their butts, trying to get it done by Art ...

It was a magical moment, just a few hours before painter Nancy Cheairs began trundling her work down to Askew Nixon Ferguson to hang her show, "New Paintings," which opens tonight. Cheairs' East Memphis backhouse-turned-studio was absolutely packed with art. ...

Walking into the Art Museum of the University of Memphis now is like stepping into the pages of John M. Barry's "Rising Tide," which documents the Army Corps of Engineers' attempts to stem the after-effects of the 1927 flood that ...

Age has not affected the B-52s. The new wave band, which dominated the college party scene in early 1980s Athens Ga., long before they became bona fide hit makers, benefits from its built-in kitsch factor, which seem even more timeless ...

Last Tuesday night, rapper Playa Fly stood in a kitchen in Memphis' northeastern suburbs, chopping bell peppers and garlic cloves for a marinade. His spotless Prada sneakers had been discarded by the front door, and his hair, usually shaped into ...

When British punk-rock icon Wreckless Eric, aka Eric Goulden, made his Memphis debut at the Hi-Tone Café in July 2006, his American-born girlfriend, singer-songwriter Amy Rigby, opened the show.