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. 21), host Mamie Shannon and guests talk about about Oscar Night, Cedar Grove Opry House, Jazz-a-Fire and more. Can you beat John Beifuss in making Oscar Predictions? Find out about this Commercial Appeal annual contest! The broadcast of Local Color is sponsored by McEwen's Restaurant and by Alchemy.


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!

John Beifuss is the film writer for The Commercial Appeal. Follow his blog online - The Bloodshot Eye.

The Oscars
Feb. 24 at 6 pm on ABC
85th Annual Academy Awards
http://www.oscar.go.com

Beat Beifuss
http://www.gomemphis.com/beatbeifuss
Enter by midnight, Feb. 22

Best Picture
Amore
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day Lewis - Lincoln
Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Denzel Washington - Flight

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts - The Impossible

Oscar Experience Memphis
Feb 24 at 6 pm
The Columns
One Commerce Square, Memphis
http://www.rmhc-memphis.org/

Cedar Grove Opry House
Grand Opening Mar 2 at 7pm
6890 Highway 70, Cedar Grove TN

Jazz-A-Fire
Last Sunday of the month, 3 – 5 pm
FireHouse Community Arts Center
985 South Bellevue, Memphis
http://www.memphisblackartsalliance.org/firehouse.php

Anything Goes
Feb 26 – Mar 3
Orpheum Theatre, Memphis
http://www.orpheum-memphis.com/events/detail/anything-goes

Juneteenth Story
Sun, Feb 24 at 3 pm
Cannon Center, Memphis
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1B0048AFA6974B10

52nd Annual Memphis Coin Show
Feb 22 – 24
Landers Center, Southaven MS
http://www.sodesoto.com/events/51st-annual-memphis-coin-club-coin-show/

US National Indoor Tennis Championships
Thru Feb 24
Racquet Club of Memphis
5111 Sanderlin
http://www.memphistennis.com/home

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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