This week, vegan cheese meets wine at Crosstown, a new arts fest comes to Uptown and the City of Memphis turns 205.

 Andy Ashby, one of the co-founders of the oldest local breweries in Memphis, along with Maggie Emerson, co-founder of Maroon Brew Co., one the newest local breweries, join Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of The Sidebar.

The Metropolitan Opera tenor who stars as Rodolfo believes “La Bohème' serves as an archetype for modern TV sitcoms that also center around six friends. Like “Living Single.”

Buddy Chapman looked back on his time as MPD director from 1976 to 1983 during a book signing event for his newly published book, “Call Me Director: Memoir of a Police Reformer.” 

Memphis Obstetrics & Gynecological Association has transformed the former Opera Memphis headquarters on Wolf River Boulevard from a center for performing arts into one for the healing arts. 

The six-week event includes 270 gardens across 40 neighborhoods in Shelby and Fayette counties, as well as some public spaces. Vendors will also be in attendance at certain locations. 

“We want to uplift all arts and culture that’s taking place in Shelby County,” Shelby County Arts and Culture Liaison Nykesha Cole said of the Art for All event at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park. 

Much of the art is for sale; it will hang in baggage-claim area for one year.

The strange answer came from Angela Thomas, ex-wife of former County Commissioner Chris Thomas, who joined her former husband, daughter and two other family members as contestants on the nationally syndicated game show hosted by comedian Steve Harvey.

Lauren Ready, an Iowa native who first landed in Memphis working in television news, launched Forever Ready Productions in 2014 while still working at Action News 5 (WMC-TV). Her clientele grew from there.

This week, new art exhibitions feature work by Erin Harmon, Kong Wee Pang and Iwona Rhodes. Plus, Kevin Ford’s Tops Gallery show gets one last hurrah.

Ned Canty and Dennis Whitehead Darling joined Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of The Sidebar to talk about the production, the cast and how Darling came to love opera.

After his heroic efforts to save 32 people from a capsized excursion boat on the Mississippi River, Tom Lee worked as a city sanitation worker and lived in the Klondike neighborhood.

Against a wall of windows facing a wind-swept Mississippi River, a small group of people at Beale Street Landing raised a toast to Tom Lee Wednesday, May 8, in the park named in his honor.

Mack Weaver, the new president and CEO of Memphis in May, was asked about “the competition” in BBQ contests this year. “There’s another contest going on?” he deadpanned. Yes, Memphis, there certainly is.

While her childhood consisted of standing on tabletops and performing for family and friends, a singing career was initially just an afterthought for Cordova native Raneem Imam.

Memphis singer and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Maxann, is member of the Black Opry, and also works as a therapist.

Freelance photographer Ziggy Mack caught the action, sights, and the crowd at Riverbeat on Sunday, May 5, 2024.

There have now been two three-day music festivals staged in the redesigned Tom Lee Park by two different promoters, and while there have been differences in approach, there’s also plenty of commonality and a consistent takeaway.

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Johnnie Taylor was honored posthumously with a discussion on his legacy, the unveiling of his Beale Street Brass Note and the showing of a 20-minute documentary on his musical career.

The circuitous journey of the Fugees, a landmark 1990s’ New York hip-hop trio, landed them on the banks of the Mississippi River, at Memphis’ first Riverbeat Music Festival, on Saturday night.

Throughout the weekend, artists such as The Fugees, Yung Gravy and Al Kapone & the B.A.W. Band performed for various audiences throughout Tom Lee Park. 

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The Daily Memphian photographer Patrick Lantrip caught the acts, the sights, the colors and the crowd at Riverbeat on Saturday, May 4, 2024.

The celebration was held on the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board desegregation case ruling and featured an outdoor giveaway of children’s books for grades pre-K to sixth grade and up.

The Daily Memphian photographer Mark Weber caught the acts, the sights, the colors and the crowd at Riverbeat on Friday, May 3, 2024.