Note About Live Music: I’m not listing every concert on the list below. There are too many, which is a GREAT problem to have.
Here's your guide to all the spooky season fun from Halloween events to haunted houses happening in Memphis and the Mid-South in 2025.
Halloween – my favorite time of the year. The Memphis weather starts to cool, events are keeping our calendars full, and the spookiness comes out with pumpkin patches, haunted houses, corn mazes, and ghost tours are going strong.
Memphis Music Month continues! Each Tuesday and Thursday in October, we will share a Q&A with a local artist—so you can discover new music and get to know the amazing people making that music. See all the features here. I’ve partnered with my friends at Memphis Music Hub for this series, so the ‘MH’ you see below stands for Music Hub.
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Downtown’s newest café opened yesterday, and this beautiful, naturally-lit coffee shop has a a twist: it’s also the headquarters for the Memphis Chess Club. The space is like a mashup of a hip coffee shop where movie people have meet-cutes—combined with the Study where Colonel Mustard did it with the Candlestick. It’s great.
You've seen everything on Netflix and scrolling through Instagram gets old fast. If you're as sick of staying inside as I am, grab your sunscreen and a water bottle and hit the great outdoors.
Here are thirteen things to do to outside in Memphis:
