To celebrate its 30 anniversary, the Dixon Gallery & Gardens is admitting visitors free on the 30th of each month this year. This 30th is particularly special, however, because today is the opening of a pair of exhibits celebrating two other Memphis institutions celebrating their 30ths: Memphis magazine and Memphis In May. The Memphis exhibit features magazine covers that chronicle 30 years of life in Memphis, while the Memphis in May show is a display of 30 years of the event’s posters. For more information, go the Flyer’s online calendar, here.

Elvis’ former home isn’t the only kingly purchase you can make on e-bay. Item #8410316830 is a vintage gold lame jacket that’s almost identical to the one designed as part of Elvis’ famous $10,000 suit. Like Elvis’ jacket, which was cut into thousands of pieces and given away with his four-record box set Elvis: The Other Sides, Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors, who were famous for outfitting the Western movie stars and honky-tonk heroes of the 1950s and ’60s, created this metallic beauty.

Inspired by time spent at the National Ornamental Metal Museum, choreographers for ProjectMotion’s Metallurgy: The Properties of Dance have used movement to explore the ideas of alchemy, strength, desire, forging, mining, blasting and — in whimsical honor of the Metal Museum’s annual repair days — bent spoons.
For the particulars (when, where, and how much), check out the Flyer’s new searchable online calendar listings here.

First, they were Jefferson Airplane, a hippy-trippy band that sang about Vietnam and free love. But things got all futuristic in the 1980s, and the airplane morphed into a spacecraft. They become known as Jefferson Starship, a pop group specializing in the now-missing art of the power ballad.
They’re back, and nothing’s going stop them now. For a hefty sum ($250), you can see them at the Pyramid at a dinner and silent auction to benefit the American Cancer Society on Saturday, April 29th. Not a Starship fan? The money’s for a good cause, and it may be your last chance to see the Pyramid sans stuffed dead animals.
For more info, go to the Flyer’s searchable online calendar here.

Memphis ranked last in a study by the Tenneseee Center for Policy Research in comparing the state’s 50 largest cities in four areas: community allure, minimal/local business tax burden, workforce skill/value, and strategic location business amenities. At or near the top in all categories were such metropoli as Farragut, Mount Juliet, Maryville, and Franklin. Nashville finished at 15th, Knoxville 34th, and Chattanooga 38th. Read more about it