The Memphis River Parks Partnership announced the change Friday, May 8, as it honored recipients in the 5th annual Tom Lee Poetry and Spoken Word competition.

While the shop is open some days, visitors can order Boycott Coffee by landline phone and watch it being prepared on a closed-circuit TV.

The marquee event of Memphis Art & Fashion Week is Runway at the Museum, held on Friday, May 8, at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.

The Annunciation Church community starts preparing months in advance to make thousands of pastries in several varieties sold at the annual Greek Festival, held May 8 and 9 this year.

It’s peak spring this Saturday, with events galore scheduled. 

In this week’s To-Do List, catch up on the first “Heat” before the sequel drops, watch an Irish sports throwdown and catch the season’s first free show at Overton Park Shell. 

Karen Carrier, who started Memphis restaurants including The Beauty Shop, DKDC and Mollie Fontaine, joins Eric Barnes for this week’s episode of “The Sidebar.”

Chris Herrington: “‘Knives Out’ meets ‘Babe’ is an elevator pitch I would buy, and I suspect I’ll be buying in the form of a movie ticket soon.”

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, May 8.

The show includes Alabama-native, Nashville-based country singer Jay Webb. 

Acts included Lukah, YoBreeyze, Boo Mitchell’s Royal Studios Jam, Strooly, Wale, St. Vincent, T-Pain, and headliner Dave Matthews Band.

The beginning of May brings us a whole week of Memphis art and fashion, plus an election day and the NBA draft lottery. 

After beloved, though gruff, businessman Jerry Gibson was murdered in his record store, his family sealed the place shut, leaving his hundreds of thousands of collectibles untouched for 10 years. Until now.

Local rap legends Yo Gotti and 8Ball & MJG have recorded at Young Avenue Sound, and now the property is for sale. 

A few decades ago, stars like Tom Cruise, Matt Damon and Reese Witherspoon were shooting movies in Memphis. Longtime local film commissioner Linn Sitler discusses what’s changed and why there’s hope for the future. 

Google search queries about meeting people and “how to make friends” are at all-time highs this year. A few Memphians have ideas on how to make it happen. 

Riverbeat came back to Tom Lee Park on Friday, May 1, for the first day of the annual music festival, with Hope Clayburn’s Soul Scrimmage, Lord Huron, Salt-N-Pepa and headliner The Red Clay Strays. 

Runway at the Museum includes six featured designers, most of whom are local.

For Ramona Sonin, her life in fashion started when she was a kid and got her first pair of white go-go boots. She joins Eric Barnes on this week’s “The Sidebar” podcast to talk about Memphis Art & Fashion Week 2026.

Are you ready to dance? Or just sway slightly back and forth rhythmically? 

The immersive experience “Baron Von Opperbean and The River of Time” opens Friday, May 1, in the old River Museum at Mud Island River Park. 

The foundation honored Wu-Tung Clan, which is headlining the Riverbeat Music Festival this weekend, with the 2026 Global Impact Award.

In this week’s To-Do List, you get a pass to peek into people’s backyards, there’s a morning rave on Beale Street and Global Cafe hosts a beer mile for a cause.

May is a notable month for music in Memphis.

Millington’s effort to secure the 20th Lone Sailor statue around the world, reached fruition Wednesday as the city and organizers signed the contract to locate the work in a plaza near Navy Road and Easley Avenue.