This year’s Grand Champion is the first rib team to win Memphis in May’s World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest in more than 20 years.

The works of McLean Fahnestock, Khara Woods, Tangela Mathis and Carl Fox feature a variety of media and themes, from video art and abstract painting to mixed-media installations and immersive dreamscapes.

Over the next six weeks, garden enthusiasts will be able to visit hundreds of gardens at businesses, homes and organizations throughout the Memphis area.

This week, take a “mammoth” hike at Shelby Farms, meet the musicians buried at Elmwood and explore a revamped South City during MEMFix.

The exhibit features the beauty and intricacy of a unique style of painting that combines elements of Chinese calligraphy with Western abstraction.

The project is expected to take two years and will change much of the museum’s campus on Downtown’s Mulberry Street.

Despite the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest’s smaller scale, Tom Lee Park was active Tuesday afternoon with contestants building booths and hauling in grills and smokers.

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A Memphis documentary, “Me and the Light,” inspired the school curriculum Grounded that has touched hundreds. 

The World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest returns to the redesigned Tom Lee Park this Wednesday. And we’ve got tips on tent etiquette, where to eat, where to park and what to bring.

“I was looking for my next inspiration, my next project, and was listening to (country) music, and there’s all these stories in cowboy music. It’s kind of like the joke, ‘My wife left me for best friend, my dog died, or I like beer,’ but there’s also something haunting and hard and isolating about country music and the idea of the landscape and Americana.”

Nine Memphis teenagers took their talents to the Radians Amphitheater stage Saturday, May 13, at an event designed to showcase young artists’ skills.

“At the Metal Museum, we’re taking ancient metalworking techniques and combining them with contemporary technology to create beautiful objects,” said Carissa Hussong, the museum’s executive director. “The building itself kind of represents what we do.”

This week, Memphis in May celebrates Malaysia, Opera Memphis honors soldiers and Motownphilly’s back again.

The grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Arun Gandhi left his imprint all over Memphis, including at Christian Brothers University, where he led the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence for 15 years.

Designed as a site-specific production, 901 Stories’ three acts will take the audience through several rooms of the Medicine Factory — each made to suit the setup, mood and theme of a particular story.

NCRM plans to conduct a national search to find a permanent replacement.

Artists and Arlington residents Mark and Megan Davey painted the mural at Arlington’s Depot Square to represent the town’s past with the train depot, water tower and old cotton gin featured.

The recipients of the second annual poetry and spoken word competition continued the theme set by last year’s winner of a broader interpretation of Tom Lee’s heroism.

Beale Street Music Festival Day 3 wrapped up Sunday night at Tom Lee Park in Downtown Memphis. Photographer Ziggy Mack was there capturing photos of fans, and acts including Andy Grammer, Jazmine Sullivan and Los Lobos.

Festival-goers and vendors had mixed reactions to how the iconic Memphis in May weekend event played out in 2023.

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The portions of the newly built park that were fenced off tightened the space and altered the flow. But the new parts that were accessible made for a more engaging and functional space.

Beale Street Music Festival Day 2 wrapped up Saturday night at Tom Lee Park in Downtown Memphis. Photographer Patrick Lantrip was there capturing photos of fans, and acts including GloRilla, Finesse2Tymes, Big Boogie, Mac Saturn and Halestorm and Mike.

Many concert goers liked the atmosphere at Handy Park, but not the logistics of walking from Tom Lee Park and ascending the bluff to get there.

Bands, fans, vendors all celebrate the return of Beale Street Music Festival to its traditional home in Tom Lee Park on a beautiful Friday night.