If this weekend has a theme, it's food competitions for a good cause. There are also Elvis Tribute Artists in town to perform and roller derby lessons, so one might be able to skate, rattle and roll.

Newsletter editor Bianca Phillips is here to tell us all about them.

Plus:

• The Tennesee Board of Education is preserving its two-credit world-language requirement
• A councilmember urges the administration to make a plan for regulation of short-term rentals
• Tigers projects a deficit in men's basketball
• Filipino bar opens Downtown
• Mid-South Chinese Chamber buys the historic Cordova School