Finalists have been announced for the 2013 Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest. Adribbers, LVOB, and High Life on the Hog ranked top in the ribs division.

Jason Fontanez came in from New York to get the "A" ticket of barbecue.

Once a year, the Ms. Piggie Idol competition explodes on the main stage at the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.

The Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest is under way at Tom Lee Park and, for three days, is the most aromatic temporary city in the world.

Corky’s Don Pelts was a barbecue giant in a barbecue town, but his friends and family remember him as a man with a great appetite for life and a generous and fun spirit.

It’s here. The Super Bowl of Swine. Smoke on the River. When your official name is the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, a nickname or two comes in handy.

Music once again triumphed over nature, as the curtain closed on the 37th edition of Memphis in May’s Beale Street Music Festival Sunday.

Memphis rapper and Oscar-winner Al Kapone was the hardest working man in Memphis show business on Sunday as the Beale Street Music Festival entered the home stretch.

Rock, country, hip-hop, soul and blues — just about everything but a sorely needed chorus of “Rain, Rain, Go Away” — were on tap on the north end of Tom Lee Park Saturday as the Bud Light Stage and the ...

While the weather continued to be drudgery, the performances were inspired during the second day of the Beale Street Music Festival.

Punk rock pioneer Patti Smith spent her Friday evening eating the barbecue at the famous Rendezvous restaurant. She woke up Saturday morning and toured Graceland.

Saturday at the Beale Street Music Festival, the gates opened on time with no storms predicted. The second day of the fest was shaping up to be a more or less normal medley of music and mud, with crowds coming ...

The cold and mud did little to dampen spirits on the north end of Tom Lee Park on the first night of 2013 Beale Street Music Festival on Friday. Music fans who braved the elements were treated to surprisingly energetic ...

Dear Mother Nature: Was it something we said? Or did? Sure, we tried to build a highway through Overton Park. But that was long ago.

The opening night of the Beale Street Music Festival at Tom Lee Park offered lots of mud following a day of hard rain, plenty of grousing about the unusually frigid temperatures, and, of course, a mix of music and big ...