Local Color

Each week, host Mamie Shannon and her guests in the Local Color 'coffee shop' talk about the entertainment scene in and around Memphis and the Mid-South. This week on Local Color (Feb. 28), host Mamie Shannon and guests talk about new Memphis album releases; Literacy Mid-South's Reading Mob featuring "Wonder" by R.J. Palacio; upcoming theater productions like "A Steady Rain" and "A Chorus Line" at Theatre Memphis; Knit the Brooks at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; and more. The broadcast of Local Color is sponsored by McEwen's Restaurant and by Alchemy.
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Local Color airs Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. on WKNO/Channel 10, and repeats Saturday afternoon at 1:30. It also airs Saturday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. on WKNO2

THIS WEEK'S TALKERS

WHAT WERE THEY TALKING ABOUT?

Host Mamie Shannon

Chris Davis covers the performance beat for The Memphis Flyer.

Ashley Dacus is Local Color's expert on what's new in the world of books!

Elizabeth Cawein is the founder of Signal Flow PR, a specialty PR and publicity firm dedicated to serving musicians and music businesses

Dead Soldiers Album Release
Mar 2
Young Avenue Deli, Midtown

Mark Edgar Stuart Album Release
Mar 5

Blues for Lou Album Release
Sat, Mar 9 at 9 pm
Earnestine and Hazel's, Memphis

Literacy Mid South
Read Across America Month
902 S Cooper St Memphis
http://www.literacymidsouth.org/

Reading Mob: Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Fri, Mar 1 at 3 – 5 pm
Booksellers at Laurelwood

World Book Night U.S.
April 23, 2013
http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/

A Steady Rain
Thru Mar 3
Theatre Memphis Next Stage
http://www.theatrememphis.org/

A Chorus Line
Mar 8 – 30
Theatre Memphis
http://www.theatrememphis.org/

Debbie Does Dallas
Mar 1 – 24
Circuit Playhouse

Knit the Brooks
Sun, Mar 17 at 11 am – 2 pm
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
http://www.brooksmuseum.org/

Crossroads of Memory: Carroll Cloar and the American South
Jun 8 – Sep 15
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
http://www.brooksmuseum.org/

The Smoking Flowers with Deering and Down
Sat, Mar 2 at 9 pm
AND
The Warble with Chateau Nowhere
Sun Mar 3
The World Famous Poplar Lounge, Memphis

Between the Buried and Me with So She Sang & Aletheia
March 4
New Daisy Theatre on Beale St.

Have a tip or suggestion for Local Color? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at localcolor@wkno.org!

Submission guidelines: Local Color will showcase events but will not be able to mention sponsors, fundraising efforts, or political events. Each event submitted will be considered, but may not end up on the show. Each event submitted must be open to the public and be held in the Mid-South area

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