A few more buildings have been added to the skyline and the riverfront looks a little more idyllic than it does in real life, but otherwise, this 1960s postcard of downtown Memphis looks quite a bit like the city does now.
And while I'm a big fan of the card's saturated colors, the artist has clearly taken some liberties with the color of the Mississippi River. This isn't the north, you know.
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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Today in Memphis, we've got a ton of required reading before tonight's Grizzlies game, two shout outs from national magazines, a new splash park and a solved mystery. Also, you can get Muddy's cupakes downtown today. Today's photo was snapped at Fresh Market by Instagrammer @psslaton....
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