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Lifelong Memphian Alex McPeak was nice enough to tell me what he loves about Memphis over lunch at Deja Vu. Alex is a cyclist, writer, and consummate foodie (meaning, if he ever volunteers to take you out to eat, say yes, and then let him order for you).
Excuse me while I go a little bit fangirl for a minute. In order to interview Chuck Roberts, the PA announcer for the University of Memphis men’s basketball home games, I got to go down to the floor level at the FedEx Forum.
To get there, you go down a really steep driveway into the basement [...]
Michelle Bush is a local singer-songwriter and guitar teacher. She was kind enough to answer a few easy questions about Memphis for me yesterday.
Check out Michelle’s original songs and find out when she’s playing around town on her MySpace page.
(If you’d like to answer five questions or have your picture taken with the I Love [...]
Pre-sent Present opens Friday night at Voices of the South (in the basement of First Congregational Church on Cooper) at 8 p.m. and runs through December 20th.
A few weeks ago, the Today Show named its first ever Kid Reporter after a nationwide competition. The winner was perky, eloquent Deidra Shores, a 13 year-old from Memphis.
Her reaction to her win was priceless.
Deidra was kind enough to let me do the asking this afternoon at Muddy’s Bakeshop:
While we were at Muddy’s, a few [...]
Shelby Edwards is kind of a consummate Midtowner. He grew up in the neighborhood and has been working behind the bar at Otherlands for five years. Here he is, talking about his favorite things to do on rainy days in Memphis, the best thing about growing up here and what’s in Otherlands’ famous secret sauce.
The Leadership Academy’s Elizabeth took a few minutes out of her busy schedule wrangling one of my favorite Memphis blogs, Memphis Connect, to talk about underground jazz clubs, why she lives in Memphis and Tiger basketball.