Get out your Growl Towels and ditch your razors - no matter what happens tonight, the Grizzlies are playing the LA Clippers in the first round of the NBA Playoffs on Sunday. Here's hoping that they'll be at the FedExForum.
Pledge week is over and things are back to normal on the Mystery Train (which means that I'm back to hanging out alone with my records). Thanks to everyone who donated to keeping volunteer radio alive in Memphis.
Antique Warehouse Mall is filling the antique store void that Bojo's left when it closed last year. This store is smaller and much better organized, but it's quickly become one of my favorite places to kill an hour.
Here are some of the things I found while wandering around this afternoon.
An entire 1970s living room:
- The Flyer's Chris Herrington is right: this is the greatest Grizzlies photo of all time.
Thanks to a big endowment and several years of construction, there's going to be a huge community center where Memphians can play, work out, learn, worship and hold garage band practice. Here's what's up with the Salvation Army's Kroc Center.
Meet Allen K. Turner, a Memphian (ok, North Mississippian, but close enough) serving with the Mississippi Army National Guard. Here, he answers my questions about what he's working on, the dish he's craving most and what he misses about Memphis:
If you've eaten at Muddy's Bakeshop, Acre, Central Barbecue or Yolo, you may have completed assignment #113 in the 365 Things to Do in Memphis without even knowing it. All of those restaurants (and 39 more) are certified sustainable by Project Green Fork.
You could look at this tray of sticky buns and say, "My goodness - that doesn't look like a healthy breakfast! They're covered in icing." Or, you could look at them and say "That's an awesome breakfast, because though they're covered in icing, those sticky buns are all organic and locally made." Assignment #112 in the 365 Things to Do in Memphis is to say the latter.
