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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yesterday afternoon, I got a text from my friend John letting me know that there were a ton of taco trucks parked along Summer Ave. Never one to resist the siren call of a taco wagon, I got in my car and started driving east, determined to stop at the first truck I saw.
It took a while before I found one, but there, parked just a little bit east of Waring, was Taqueria el Porvenir.
Is anyone else having a hard time waking up after last night's playoff game between the Grizz and the OKC Thunder?
It was a late night rollercoaster of emotions: the terrible first half; the somewhat better third quarter; the fourth-quarter redemption; the overtime that had us all a little scared that it would turn into another three-overtime slumber party. I don't know what the aftermath of the game was like at the Forum, but at Alex's, there was a dance party to Chuck Berry's "Memphis, Tennessee".
Rise and grind, y'all.
Today in Memphis, there are new plans for the restaurant formerly known as Cortona, Trader Joe's comes to Memphis (sort of), the Memphis Chamber makes a wager and Marc Gasol is the most interesting basketball player in the world.
All of that (and plenty more) is in today's Memphis news update:
Chances are, if you yell "Opa!" at this weekend's Greek Festival, at least 30 people will yell it back. Here's a look inside the festival, which celebrates Memphis' sizeable Greek Orthodox community.
You can buy pastries inside individually or by the box. I recommend getting a mixed box and taking it home with you.
