The Sidebar with Eric Barnes

May 15 2024 12
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The Sidebar, hosted by Eric Barnes from The Daily Memphian, focuses on arts, culture and everything in between in Memphis, including interviews with people shaping the city and sometimes an exploration of topics stranger, funnier and more surprising than you might expect to hear.

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S5E17: A (very short) history of local beer in Memphis

May 15 2024 28 mins  
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, joins Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of The Sidebar.

S5E16: How Beale Street influenced La Bohème at Opera Memphis

May 08 2024 28 mins  
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.

S5E15: LifeDoc's journey providing health care in Memphis

Apr 26 2024 27 mins  
Pedro Velasquez joined Eric Barnes to talk about LifeDoc’s mission, his family’s journey from Venezuela to Memphis, and the organization’s evolution nearly 20 years after its founding.

S5E14: Phillip Ashley on branded candy, cocoa shortages and shipping chocolate in the summer

Apr 22 2024 28 mins  
Phillip Ashley, the founder of Phillip Ashely Chocolates, discusses the evolution of his business as he’s shifted to more branded and business-to-business chocolate sales, including partnerships with Cadillac and other big named brands.

S5E13: Vintage901 brings the culinary arts to all of Memphis

Apr 17 2024 29 mins  
At its core, Vintage901 is about good food, good wine and the connections people make through eating and drinking together.

S5E12: Lauren Kennedy goes from urban art to an art gallery

Apr 11 2024 28 mins  
For eight years - until she founded the art gallery Sheet Cake in the Edge District in December of 2023 - Lauren Kennedy was executive director of the UrbanArt Commission, an organization which was essential to the spread of so much public art throughout Memphis.

S5E11: Helping local arts groups collaborate to reach more people

Apr 03 2024 28 mins  
Nykesha Cole joined Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of The Sidebar to talk about her work as the arts and culture liaison for Shelby County Government.

S5E10: The amazing mission - and incredible brownies - of Lucy J's bakery

Mar 27 2024 28 mins  
Josh Burgess, who founded Lucy J’s with his wife, Tracy, joined Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of The Sidebar. They talked not only about Lucy’s J’s support of families working to get out of homelessness, but the many ways big and small that the bakery supports these families.

S5E9: How the library foundation supports the library's mission

Mar 20 2024 27 mins  
This week, Christine Weinreich, head of the Memphis Library Foundation, joined Eric Barnes on The Sidebar to talk about the foundation’s work in support of Memphis public libraries.

S5E8: Holly Whitfield's 100 Things to Do in Memphis

Mar 15 2024 29 mins  
Holly has written a new book documenting and describing so many cool and interesting places in Memphis: “100 Things to Do in Memphis Before You Die”.