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Day seven's assignment is particularly delicious: Go to Lucchesi's and pick up some dinner. Lucchesi's Italian grocery store in East Memphis stocks all kinds of breads, pastas, cheeses, olives and salamis. What's better is tha they also sell all…
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Happy Friday, Memphis! Here are the 5 things you won't want to miss in Memphis this weekend. But first, be sure you didn't miss anything on the blog lately: New Jewish Deli Opens In Cooper Young Get Your Fried Corn Cobs and Green Tomatoes at King…
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Today will go down as the sad, sad day that much like Al Capone, our beloved Kwik Check was seized by the state government for tax evasion. Let this be a lesson. In other news: - Memphis in May has announced their 2011 honored country. It's…
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What do Margret Atwood, John Updike, Lucille Clifton, and Philip Levine all have in common? They’re among the thousands of authors whose work has appeared in The Pinch, Memphis’s own award-winning journal of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art.…
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Memphis accolades have been coming in so fast the last few days, I decided it was time for another lovely bragging rights post. But first, a puppy from an adorable Instagram account I recently found. A photo posted by Dogs of Memphis (@dogsofmem)…
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Happy I Love Memphis Gets A New Website Day! I'm so excited to launch the new site design. Everything you're seeing on your screen right now was custom-designed (in collaboration with local firm S2N) to make I Love Memphis easier and more fun to…
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Attention, public radio fans: our patron saint / storytelling godfather Ira Glass is coming to the Orpheum next month. Like any good public radio nerd, I've been a fan of Ira Glass' weekly show, "This American Life", for years. Each week, a…
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On the hill next to a train trestle that crosses Lamar Ave., there's a...thing. Actually, it's a bunch of things. For lack of a better word, it's a sculpture that's been carefully constructed out of found objects strung through trees. There are…
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I was going to take a picture of my friend Memphis Jones holding my I Love Memphis sign, but he felt a little weird holding a sign with his name on it. So I held it for him (which was totally fine - I love people named Memphis, too). Memphis...
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I had lunch at Fratelli's (located at the Memphis Botanic Garden) today. They've got a half-panini / bowl of soup combo that can't be beat. During the summer, they've got tables on their porch, which looks out on the rose garden. In other news: -…