OMG BGR! I spent $40 on burger meals for two at the new BGR The Burger Joint. Was it worth the sticker shock? I kind of don't think so.
The restaurant opened Monday in the Ridgeway Trace Center on Popular. It's located between a Super Cuts and Mountain Yogurt (MoYo, YoLo,...
Posted 02/03/12 @ 10:25 PM
Even by modern-day standards, East Parkway has never seemed, to me, to be a particularly busy street. But goodness gracious, it's like the Autobahn compared to how it used to look 100 years ago.
This view shows what I believe to be the intersection of East Parkway and Madison in 1912....
Posted 02/02/12 @ 03:56 PM
Last week, after I posted the solution to “The Mystery of the Old Postcard,” I got an email from the detective himself, Tim Johnson. Here’s what he said about himself:
“Hey there, I'm the one who got the postcard figured out. My dad is also named Tim Johnson...
Posted 01/29/12 @ 11:12 PM
Cold weather finally hit the Winter Market at Tsunami last Saturday, so I was thrilled to see several quarts of matzo ball soup still on the table at Shoaf's Loaf Organic Bakery. Sarah Tinkler has added soup making to bread making during the winter months, in addition to her more...
Posted 01/27/12 @ 07:32 AM
Yesterday I posted an image of a postcard, mailed in 1909 to a young man in Memphis named George Cooper James, which contained a rather puzzling message.
Well, I must say that we have some exceedingly intelligent people in our city, because it only took a few hours for one reader to break...
Posted 01/26/12 @ 02:41 PM
I like a good mystery as much as the next fellow, but this one has me stumped.
My pal Paul Craig recently sent me a scan of a rather battered old postcard, with this message: "I recently won an eBay auction for a very odd and unusual postcard. The front [a view of Main Street]...
Posted 01/25/12 @ 01:36 PM
A new burger franchise called BGR The Burger Joint is coming to Poplar just east of the 240 loop in the Ridgeway Trace Center. The Memphis BGR is the first in Tennessee, and the burgers look rather spectacular: a touch of gourmet with a lot of heft. That's the "Wellington" burger...
Posted 01/25/12 @ 07:21 AM
In the February issue of Memphis magazine, I tell the story of one of our city's most fascinating characters, pizza-pie man and health-food guru Mario DePietro.
Now, I'm not going to give anything away here. You'll have to wait for the February issue. But what I wanted to share...
Posted 01/24/12 @ 12:03 PM
