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.”

Historically, West Tennessee has been known for commodity crops such as soy, corn and especially cotton. But in recent years, an increasing number of area farmers have started growing specialty crops — like peaches — because they’re more profitable per acre.

A special session of the Tennessee General Assembly starts today — the same day as the Shelby County primary. 

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

A landmark Supreme Court ruling has put the boundaries for Tennessee’s nine congressional districts in play, especially the Memphis-centric district now represented by Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen.

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.

Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss each of the draft’s top guard prospects in 2026. 

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

The Shelby County primaries are here, with early voting already ongoing, and election day coming fast and furious on Tuesday, May 5.

In part two of our podcast about the takeover, reporter Laura Testino returns to talk about how churn factors in, what we can take from the school system takeover in Houston and what role school closures and land sales might play. 

Who will the new board members be? And is former superintendent Marie Feagins expected to get her job back? 

Much like the human body, the week ahead is about 60% water. 

When life gives you pizza dough, make panuzzo.

More than 300 people have been charged and indicted federally since the beginning of the Memphis Safe Task Force, U.S. Attorney Mike Dunavant said on the WKNO-TV program “Behind the Headlines.”

This weekend includes a rock opera, roller derby, Shelby Forest Spring Fest, a rescheduled vegan block party and a Lego convention. Plus a Friends of the Library book sale and a yard sale. 

Ashley Hannah Davis considered retiring from dance in 2021. But Machine Gun Kelly, the Prohibition-era gangster born (and later arrested) in Memphis, helped changed her mind — or at least his wife and partner-in-crime Kathryn Kelly did.

For years, Southern Avenue was neglected or even blighted. And then the Cooper Young Garden Club got involved.

Three local high school seniors have committed to the Tigers, two from the same high school. 

The plea may end a saga that made national news, but it’s complicated. 

If you have your Daily Memphian 2026 bingo card, now might be a good time to get it out. 

If there’s one thing happening this weekend, it’s food. You can go to two different food festivals on both Saturday and Sunday. 

Today we’re talking about kratom: What it is, where you get it, what the Tennessee General Assembly is considering doing about it, and even how to say it. 

Today, commercial real estate reporter Andy Ashby takes us inside several property transactions as well as why commercial real estate is such a fun and interesting topic. For real.