The Mighty Olive is a gourmet olive oil and vinegar shop that opened in East Memphis this week. The store offers over 40 different varieties of oil and vinegar, from blood orange extra virgin olive oil to serrano honey vinegar. I stopped in to check it out.

The Broad Avenue Fall Art Walk this Friday night is going to be the biggest yet, with about 70 local artists. All the studios, galleries, and businesses will be open, and there will be plenty of music and dance performances. 

Taxes are one of life's great certainties, unless it's Tennessee's annual state-wide sales tax holiday.

Tennessee's tax holiday is a glorious three-day period (held annually on the first weekend in August) where our 9.25 percent state sales tax isn't applied to a bunch of practical, back-to-school type items.

Juzemibaby's fresh, homemade juices might be the healthiest delivery / take-out option in Memphis.

Juzemibaby (which I think is pronounced "juice me, baby") is a Memphis-based mobile juice and smoothie shop. 

Remember Adventure River?

If you're a Memphian of a certain age, it's likely you spent many a summer day sitting on the fake beach or braving the Geronimo slide at the water park.

If you don't quite remember it, Adventure River was located off of I-40 near Whitten Road and opened every Memorial Day through Labor Day from 1985 until 1998. Memphians of all ages flocked to its had water slides, a lazy river and a (slightly terrifying) wave pool.

Here's an Adventure River commercial from the late 80s: 

A few weeks ago, I ate a sweet bean paste-stuffed steamed bun at dim sum at Asian Palace. As soon as I swallowed the last of it, I started wondering how soon was too soon to go back for more, because suddenly, I was a woman obsessed.