Downtown Dining Week starts, Bowling for Soup at Satellite, and the Indie Memphis encores

Hey Memphis 👋 It's Monday. Patchy fog before 7, then sunny and 69. Tonight stays clear and drops to 46, with fog rolling back in after midnight, so give yourself a minute on the Tuesday commute.

Indie Memphis encores — Malco Studio on the Square, 6 PM The Lorraine, 8 PM Hoop Street, 8:30 PM The Projectionist, $15 a film ($20 for the opening-night film). Missed the festival? Three of its films get a second screening tonight, with filmmakers in the room for two of them. Details

Bowling for Soup — Satellite Music Hall, doors 6:30, show 7:30, all ages, tickets through Satellite. A Monday-night, all-ages show, which is about the friendliest way a week can start. Details

The Lowliest One, Wagoneer and Livid Noise — Hi Tone (downstairs), 284 N. Cleveland St., doors 7, show 8, $13.50. Three bands in the small room on a Monday, for about the price of a sandwich. Details

Piece of Me: Poetry & Open Mic Night — PizzaMe!, 2857 Kirby Road, 7–9 PM, free. A Monday open mic for poetry, comedy and R&B, with a different featured artist every week. Details

Twilight Yoga and Pilates — Overton Park Shell, 1928 Poplar Ave., 5:30–6:30 PM, free. A free class on the Shell stage while there's still a little light left. Details

👶 With the kids

Tigers women's basketball vs. Little Rock — Elma Roane Fieldhouse, 6 PM, tickets through the Tigers. The athletics department has billed this one as Pouncer's Pals Day. Details

Turkey Balloon Races — Randolph Library, 3752 Given Ave., 4–5 PM, free, ages 5 to 7. Kids turn a balloon into a turkey, then race it. Details

Pokémon Club — Burch Library, Collierville, 5–6:30 PM, free. A come-and-go meetup for trainers of every age. Bring cards; kids under 10 need a grown-up along. Details

Night drivers, the interstate work rolls on: TDOT has lane closures from 8 PM to 6 AM, Monday through Friday, on I-40 between I-240 and Chelsea and on I-240 between I-40 and I-55 while crews install wrong-way-driver warnings. The ramp from northbound Third Street to southbound I-55 also closes Tuesday, 9 AM to 3 PM, with a posted detour. (via TDOT)

The Greater Memphis Chamber has a new president and CEO: Joshua Gunn, who comes from economic and workforce development for the City of Durham, N.C., and ran chambers in Glendale, Ariz., and Peoria, Ill., before that. (via Action News 5)

Memphis music businesses, a new pot of money: the city's $100,000 MEMFund, run by Music Export Memphis, will give grants of up to $3,000 to venues and production and support services for things like equipment, marketing and building upgrades. Guidelines and the application open in the coming weeks. (via City of Memphis)

Downtown Dining Week starts today — more than 50 downtown restaurants, through Sunday, Nov. 15. Each spot runs its own week-only deal, and turning in receipts from three of them enters you for a hotel stay, a spa day and dining gift cards. Parking codes 901DINE2 ($2) and 901DINE4 ($4) work at four downtown lots, 11 AM to 9 PM, Sunday through Thursday. Details

Starry Nights — Shelby Farms Park, Saturday, Nov. 21, through Jan. 3, tickets online only. Opening night is Nov. 21, and the lights stay on through the first weekend of January. Details

Matt Mathews: Not What I Ordered — the Orpheum, Nov. 19–22, from $53.85. The comedian's four-night run opens Thursday, Nov. 19. Details

Hell's Kitchen — the Orpheum, March 16–21, 2027, $46.95–$163. Tickets are on sale for the Broadway tour of Alicia Keys' Tony-winning musical. Ages 8 and up. Details

The Indie Memphis report: we asked for the film you'd tell a friend to catch at the encores, and you all decided to gatekeep the good ones. Fine. The encore slate is up top, and The Lorraine was the festival's opening-night pick.

Stefanie C. wrote in that she wants more live local rock. Fair. You'll see it in the lineup more often from here on, starting tonight with three bands downstairs at the Hi Tone.

The tip line never closes — a band, a pop-up, a Monday-night find we missed. No gatekeeping — send it to hey@heymemphis.co.

That's it for today — see you tomorrow at 6.

— Josh