Assignment #56 in the 365 Things to Do in Memphis is to drive past one of our quirkiest local landmarks.
The giant concrete Buddha isn't a piece of public art – it rises at least 10 feet tall out of the corner of a front yard. It's a little tough to take a picture of (it faces the house), but you can see that he's grinning.
If you'd like to see him, take Mendenhall south about a mile and a half past the southern portion of I-240.
If you turned off the TV in frustration sometime in the third quarter, you missed the Grizzlies staging a comback, Tony Allen selling a technical so hard that he should have a spot on QVC, overtime, then a not-so-bad loss. It was like the fourth quarter was trying to make up for the first three being...
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You can chalk the Grizzlies' abysmal performance in game one of the Western Conference Finals up to a lot of things: nerves, tougher competition, awful shooting, a lack of contribution from our major players. And you would be right to do so. But I've got a sneaking suspicion that it had at least...
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This weekend, park your bicycle under the giant bike wheel disco ball in Crosstown for the third annual Bikesploitation film, music and art festival. There's so much happening at this year's event that the festival has been extended to three days. It startsFriday night at 5 p.m. with the opening...
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Happy post-Barbecue Fest Monday, y'all. Have you recovered yet? Today in Memphis, we've got two remembrances, new restaurants, new retail in Overton Square, plenty of required reading about the Grizz and a video of Tony Allen grocery shopping. Photo by @jmwarnerphoto. If you'd...
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I know, I know: you don't want to talk about it. It was awful, and you'd rather just forget about the Grizzlies' terrible, horrible, no good, very bad game. Me too. It kind of feels like this: But – while the Grizzlies weren't doing very well at basketball, you guys were doing...
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Happy Friday! Here are five events you won't want to miss in Memphis this weekend: 1. Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, Tom Lee Park, Friday and Saturday, all day, $5 – $9 (cash only) Teams from all over the world have set up camp in Tom Lee Park to compete in this...
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Memphis now has a place that serves both cupcakes and wine. It's called the Corked Carrot, and it's about time someone had an idea like this. The space is lovely. It's sleek and modern, and it looks way more like a lounge than a bakery. The kitchen is glass-walled, so you can see the bakers...
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My face hurts from grinning. I grinned through most of the game (other than those very tense first and last minutes), I grinned when I got home, I've been grinning every time I think about how the Grizzlies, the Memphis Grizzlies, are going to the Western Conference Finals. Here are a handful of...
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Isn't it? The weather is warm, but not intensely, disugstingly hot. The air isn't so densely humid that you get sticky just walking outside. Spring has been around long enough that allergies have cleared up, and there's (for once) very little rain in the weekend forecast. Barbecue fest,...
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Sweden is Memphis in May's honored country this year, so celebrate by eating a big, buttery plate of Swedish Crepes from Stone Soup Cafe. Three crepes are stuffed with sweet cream cheese and rolled up and made Swedish with tart lingonberry sauce, dusted with powdered sugar and swimming in enough...
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5:12 am
I love driving by this with people who have never seen it before. Some stop mid-sentence!