Outdoor events are all the rage this weekend, with a fun holiday market, a very short run (with a much longer afterparty) and a hot take on fire pits. Today, editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips discuss those events, plus an exhibit of Stax Records songwriter Bettye Crutcher's letters, lyric sheets and photos once lost — and then found — in an antique mall in Lexington, Tennessee.

Plus:

• The county mayor wants more judges for Task Force cases
• Ford could scrap the EV F-150 but says there is no change for BlueOval City
• Second Line is leaving Midtown
• A judge is to deny the dismissal request for the case against Ford
• Memphis kids suffering from gunshot wounds doubled in 2023 but a real decline is happening in 2025
• Hundreds of jail inmates will be moved to combat overcrowding
• Witnesses say a gun was purchased six hours before a Mississippi Boulevard pastor was killed