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Tsunami is located in Cooper Young, a Midtown neighborhood and restaurant district. It's an intersection of international delights - within two blocks, you can eat Mexican, Irish, Korean, French, Chinese, low country, and soul food. Tsunami serves…
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Happy official beginning of summer, y'all. Here's what I played on this week's Mystery Train. As always, the local tracks are marked with an asterisk: The Pin-Ups - Lookin' For Boys Egyptians - Party Stomp Los Straitjackets feat. Big Sandy - Chica…
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Here's what I played on this morning's Mystery Train. As always, the local tracks are marked with an asterisk. Raphael Saadiq - Radio The Gories - Nitroglycerine Slow Club - Giving Up on Love Yo La Tengo - Little Honda Neko Case - John Saw That…
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In honor of Valentine's Day, I got you something that's healthier than chocolate and sounds better than flowers. It's a playlist of my favorite made-in-Memphis love songs. Listen on Spotify, or pick these tracks up from iTunes, Goner Records or…
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Ed. Note: Tsunami in Cooper Young - with Ben Smith and Colleen Couch-Smith at the helm - is a stalwart and a gem of the Memphis restaurant scene. I've always thought of Tsunami as a fancy dinner kind of place but contributor Stacey has some big…
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I'm not sure who Walter is or what he's running for, but he's campaigning hard at the Mapco station on the corner of Central and Cooper. In other news: - Tomorrow night is student rush night for Chicago at the Orpheum. Anyone with a student ID can…
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about the large number of lonely shoes on the streets of Memphis. I found another one. Lonely Shoe No. 3 Front and Union (outside of the parking garage) Memphis, Tenn. In other news: - Good news, spring breakers (and…
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Local performance group Voices Of The South hosts the Memphis FRINGE festival over the next two weekends at Rhodes College. Here are the five things you need to know. 1. What's a fringe festival? A Fringe festival is an arts event featuring a…
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Today was a special day at the Memphis Mystery Train - I had my first every in-studio guest. Intern Jerel came in to help me revive one of the old Mystery Train host's favorite features: top five songs. Intern Jerel picked out his five favorite…
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A few days ago, Matthew brought me this matchbook: But, it wasn't really a matchbook. It was a tiny poetry anthology from Small Fires Press, a local publisher of chapbooks, matchbooks and broadsides. The matchbook is filled with short poems, some…