Well, there's certainly a story here, but I just don't know what it is. These two images came from a box of old 35mm Kodachrome slides found at an estate sale. Most of them featured rather typical Memphis scenes of homes and churches, taken in the late 1950s, judging from the cars...
Posted 05/24/13 @ 08:45 PM
World barbecue champ Melissa Cookston has another job on her plate: She is the new permanent judge on “BBQ Pitmasters,” a popular series on the television channel Destination America. Cookston, who is the co-owner of Memphis BBQ Co. in Horn Lake, Mississippi, joins...
Posted 05/22/13 @ 08:58 PM
Part of the fun of the annual farm-to-table party at Newman Farm is to see what pot luck dishes show up. Most of the guests to the Memorial Day weekend event are pork-loving foodies, and many are experienced local chefs. At last year’s Pork, Fork, Cork and Lamb, the...
Posted 05/21/13 @ 04:57 PM
Before the Danish National BBQ Team served dinner at barbecue fest family night, they treated guests to an unusual appetizer: a sneak peak at the team’s award winning cookbook titled “Gold.” The book, a 400-page celebration of grilling, won a prestigious...
Posted 05/18/13 @ 12:11 PM
OK so by now, everyone is puttin' on the GRIZZ, or should. So, how about I show you mine and you show me yours? Me first: My incredible headdress is by Mimi & Mary of Brave Design. This particular piece has gone to countless Grizz games including...
Posted 05/17/13 @ 12:11 PM
Truth be told, I’ve never been clear on how to pronounce sorghum or what to do with the syrup until I attended a book signing for “Farm Fresh Tennessee,” a treasure trove of information on food, farmers, and agri-tourism from authors Paul and Angela Knipple. At...
Posted 05/14/13 @ 10:07 PM
In our May 2013 issue, I tell the rather amazing story of the March 15, 1963, crash of a military transport into a residential neighborhood in Millington. Although the plane burst into flames after plowing through a line of trees, and came to rest just behind a row of homes on Hill Street,...
Posted 05/13/13 @ 01:34 PM
Memphis is not for sissies and MusicFest once again proved that Mother Nature is gonna have her way when we wanna have our way with some of the best live music around. Regardless, the crowd braved it, the artists rocked it, and everybody did their best to represent. Also part of the...
Posted 05/10/13 @ 10:53 AM
We're proud to offer our first e-book, now available for $3.99 at the Amazon Kindle store. Titled Five that Grabbed the Gold, this volume contains the grand-prize winning stories from the Memphis magazine fiction contest from 2008 through 2012. The authors, several of whom now have...
Posted 05/09/13 @ 03:19 PM
In our April issue, I told you the story of the 1960 Russwood Park fire, one of the worst blazes in our city's history, and included never-before-seen color images of the damage up and down Madison Avenue the following morning. The fire took consumed the old baseball stadium place...
Posted 05/06/13 @ 12:18 PM
In a city like Memphis where connections to Elvis are commonplace, Chef Denis Martig’s story still stands out. I learned about Martig’s relationship with Elvis in an email with the subject tag “Researching a Very Special Picture.” Now an internationally...
Posted 05/06/13 @ 10:12 AM
Creating a perfect burger takes time, especially for the chefs at Hog & Hominy, who like to deconstruct food and then shape it into something more delicious. For the upcoming John T. Edge burger, a signature dish for the restaurant’s new back porch dive bar, the...
Posted 05/04/13 @ 02:15 PM
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