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Happy National Hot Dog Day! BBQ Slaw Dog from Elwood's Shack. Here are a few places in Memphis that have hot dogs (and holiday-appropriate hot dog specials): - Chiwawa is celebrating with half-price hot dogs all day and a special Street Dog…
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Ed. Note: While reading Veena's piece below on this Sunday's Mem 200 living history tours, I got so excited! Backbeats Mem 200 Tour is a bus tour for one day only - this Sunday, May 26 at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. - and visits important landmarks around…
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Ed. Note: Wesley is here to tell us all about one of the best cocktail parties of the year—Mix-Odyssey 2020! It's on March 6 at the Botanic Garden and you can get your tickets here before it sells out. “Mixology” is kind of like having a chemistry…
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Support Memphis’ local music community from around the world this weekend at the Give Live! Memphis Virtual Music Festival. The event features a total of eight artists performing from 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. on Friday, March 27th and 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.…
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Deep inside the Memorial Park cemetery in East Memphis, there's a cave. The cave is called the Crystal Shrine Grotto. Walking into the grotto is a little intense. You enter through a little door on the front of the rock. The first thing you notice…
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Y'all like the 5 Things To Do This Weekend so much, I thought this week we'd do a little spinoff. Here are the five things you'll want to eat and drink in Memphis this weekend. 1. Pau Hana Happy Hour at Tsunami If you want to check this one off…
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The Growler is a bar and growler filling station near the intersection of Cooper and Young, and it's now open six days a week. I went by one morning to meet David Smith, who co-owns The Growler with his business partner Anthony Bond, and his…
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Updated April 2019 Memphians love locally-brewed beer. We drink it in bars, we buy it in six packs, we hover at local festivals, Assignment #116 in the 365 Things to Do in Memphis is to tour one of the city's seven local brewery taprooms. Go to…
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Memphis invented grocery stores, so we should be a leader in smart, health-conscious, socially responsible grocery shopping during a pandemic, right? After hearing from local grocery workers and store reps, I have some requests from our heroes…
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Updated July 2017 You don't have to be in Memphis to complete assignment #197 in the 365 Things to Do in Memphis, but I'm convinced that Big Star sounds better in the city that they're from. Big Star's original line-up only played together for…