TUPELO — The Tupelo Elvis Festival returns for its 26th year on Wednesday with a sold-out opening night gala to kick off several days of events scheduled through Sunday. Competitions, concerts, ...
When she was 14, Barbara Mallory tuned in to WAMY and listened as DJ Bob Ritter spun the heck out of vinyl imprinted with the voice of a young Elvis Aaron Presley. She liked everything she heard, but ...
Nearly everyone you talk to in Tupelo, Mississippi has a story of reinvention. Stephanie Hall’s boutique was open for a mere three months before the pandemic forced its closure. Desperate for a way to ...
Apr. 11—TUPELO — Tom Brown can't wait to see his "family" again this June. Brown, the Tupelo radio personality, is referring to his Elvis family — fans of the Tupelo-born King of Rock 'n' Roll and the ...
This film features unreleased concert footage of Elvis Presley's afternoon performance at the 'Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show' held at the Fairgrounds in Tupelo, Mississippi on September 26, ...
TUPELO, MS ‒ The distance from here to Memphis, Tennessee, is about 115 miles ‒ an easily traveled span of wooded hills and sunbaked asphalt, churches and truck stops, strip malls and at least one ...
"EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert," director Baz Luhrmann's documentary follow-up to his 2022 biopic, "Elvis," will screen at ...
In 1956, Elvis Presley returned to his hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi, wearing a navy blue shirt his mother made for him. He sang to an appreciative crowd at the Tupelo Fairgrounds, and the mayor ...
TUPELO — A new historical marker has been placed where more than 90 years ago, the Tupelo Garment Factory employed a seamstress, Gladys Love Smith, whose son would eventually make a colossal impact on ...