Eric Barnes interviews Dr. Stewart Burgess, executive director of the Children’s Museum of Memphis.

“I think it’s really important to memorialize these events because human nature is to try to cover up painful parts of our history,” Lynching Sites Project of Memphis board member Laura Faith Kebede tells Eric Barnes. 

The photographer joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar to discuss how the project came to life.

The reasons people volunteer, the reasons companies organize their employees for volunteer efforts, and the ways organizations can best utilize volunteers vary greatly.

Kerry Hayes, former special assistant to Memphis Mayor AC Wharton Jr., joins Eric Barnes this week on The Sidebar.

Nearly 10 years after founding Choose901, John Carroll joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

Kate Teague, singer, songwriter and WYXR staffer, joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

Tonya Dyson, executive director of Memphis Slim Collaboratory, joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

Music producer, DJ and instructor Jeff Cohran joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

Elle Perry of The Daily Memphian joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

Bishop Phoebe Roaf talks about the coarseness of our national discourse, the disconnections COVID brought on all of us, and her journey to become the first Black, female Bishop in Tennessee on The Sidebar.

Eric Barnes talked to Marvin Stockwell, co-founder of the group that has for years tried to bring life back to the Mid-South Coliseum and now also the host of the Champions of the Lost Causes podcast.

The co-founder of Outdoors Inc. joined Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of The Sidebar. 

The head of Teach for America in Memphis joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

Zak Ozmo, the host of Music & Medicine, joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

It’s a whole lot of fun to talk about Bigfoot and the festival, which takes place Saturday, Oct. 30, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Memphis Made’s taproom in Cooper-Young.

Andy Nix of MyCityRides joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

Robby Grant and Jared Boyd of WYXR join Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

Victoria Jones of Tone joined Eric Barnes on The Sidebar to talk about rebranding, the mission of the organization, and its growth and expansion after acquiring the United Equipment Building in Orange Mound.

Ives, who co-founded Goner Records with Eric Friedl, discusses the 18-year history of the Gonerfest music festival (which starts Thursday evening, Sept. 23), his love for vinyl, and his weekly music show on WYXR.

The photographer has shot for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Vogue, and a new show of his work opens here this weekend. 

Eric Barnes talks with Memphis Current founder Sam Prager.

JD Reager apologizes when he says that, in certain ways, the COVID pandemic changed his life for the better.

Eric Barnes talks to Josh Horton on this week’s episode of The Sidebar.