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S7E8: Ballet Memphis

The Sidebar with Eric Barnes

Release Date: 04/07/2026

S7E27: Pulitzer Prize winner to speak about homelessness at MIFA event show art S7E27: Pulitzer Prize winner to speak about homelessness at MIFA event

The Sidebar with Eric Barnes

Brian Goldstone wrote a book about the millions of homeless people in the U.S., “There is No Place For us: Working and Homeless in America,” which won the Pulitzer Price for nonfiction.

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S7E26: WYXR on the bands who'll perform at this year's Raised by Sound Fest show art S7E26: WYXR on the bands who'll perform at this year's Raised by Sound Fest

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With a lineup that includes the band Soccer Mommy and a show at the new Satellite Music Hall, WYXR’s Raised by Sound Fest announced the bands that will be playing at the radio station’s annual festival.

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S7E25: New owner talks about the bright future for Memphis Flyer and Memphis Magazine show art S7E25: New owner talks about the bright future for Memphis Flyer and Memphis Magazine

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Brady Walkinshaw joins Eric Barnes to talk about the importance of local media, the network of local alt weeklies he's creating, and how print publications can be an antidote to the problems of AI.

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S7E24: Tim Disney on his new book, the global elite and Oliver & Company show art S7E24: Tim Disney on his new book, the global elite and Oliver & Company

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Tim Disney, who’ll be at Novel on August 29, joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar to talk about his dark satire of a culture of lying, misinformation and the global elite -- plus his life as the grandnephew of Walt Disney.

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S7E23: Pat Mitchell Worley on the legacy of Stax in Memphis show art S7E23: Pat Mitchell Worley on the legacy of Stax in Memphis

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Pat Mitchell Worley, the president and CEO of the Soulsville Foundation, joined Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of “The Sidebar.” 

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S7E22: How art, place and Memphis come together for the Hyde Foundation show art S7E22: How art, place and Memphis come together for the Hyde Foundation

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Rachel Knox, senior program officer for arts & culture for the Hyde Family Foundation, talks not just about the arts organizations that the foundation has supported, but the entire landscape of the arts in Memphis.  

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S7E21: How the Sterick Building hopes to transform a neighborhood Downtown show art S7E21: How the Sterick Building hopes to transform a neighborhood Downtown

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The principal of Constellation Properties, Stuart Harris, and the executive director of HiFi Memphis, Mersadies Burch, join Eric Barnes to talk about the scope and scale of the Downtown project. 

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S7E20: What makes a great music city? show art S7E20: What makes a great music city?

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Elizabeth Cawein, who founded Memphis Export Memphis ten years ago to promote Memphis musicians and help them in their careers, talks about the organization’s birthday celebration concerts on July 25, the realities of making money as a musician, and what Memphis does right - and could do better - in being a music city. 

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S7E19: Paris comes to Memphis in S7E19: Paris comes to Memphis in "Cafe Society"

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International exhibition “Café Society” at Dixon Gallery and Gardens centers on Belle Époque Paris and explores how Parisian cafés shaped the city’s culture from 1855-1914. Julie Pierotti, the Martha R. Robinson Curator of the Dixon, was the primary organizer of the exhibition. She joins us today to discuss the exhibition, as well as with the process of coordination it requires.

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S7E18: Robby Grant from WYXR show art S7E18: Robby Grant from WYXR

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Robby, who is the executive director of WYXR, joined this week’s episode of The Sidebar to talk about how the station has evolved in its six years, the range of program and events WYXR supports, and the station’s growth into a full-blown arts and community organization.

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Executive director of Ballet Memphis Andrew Goldberg joins host Eric Barnes to talk about upcoming performances (including Romeo & Juliet and Peter Pan), how ballet and Memphis intersect and summer camps/programming.