Spring won’t end for a few weeks. This doesn’t stop the sun from scorching the terra firma of Memphis with heat reaching the high 90s. So as the sun shines bright, and the cloudless skies emanate azure across the horizon, most Memphians will spend the season in the same place they spent winter’s dreariest days: [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Memphis’
May 23, 2009
Bari Ristorante
Friday marked our five-year anniversary. We celebrated by stopping in at Bari, an Italian ristorante that OpenTable.com recommends as Memphis’ premier haunt for foodies. Just south of Overton Square, Bari has erected an Italian outpost that is inspired more by the regional cuisine of coastal Italy and less by the music of Dean Martin.
Andrea and [...]
May 20, 2009
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
I am nearly finished with Michael Pollan’s bestseller, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. If I had to choose one adjective, I might use important. Here is a review. Overall, the book reminds us of the true functions of food: nutrition and community. Aims that cheapen the experience by compromising either of [...]
February 27, 2009
SIGNal OF THE TIMES
I found out yesterday that Memphis’ AM Radio portfolio includes the above station. Apparently, the station’s 50,000 watt signal makes it audible in most markets east of the Mississippi. This connectivity links the Bluff City with the flagship station for the Indians, Browns, and Cavaliers–thereby welcoming the entire MidSouth into our corporate misery. Also, I [...]
February 25, 2009
Rules to Live By
Frank Murtaugh has written this piece in Memphis Magazine. It is a worthwhile read.
Hall of Fame baseball player Satchel Paige famously had his “Six Rules for Staying Young.” (The most memorable: Don’t look back. “Something might be gaining on you.” Well, I’m turning 40 next month, and as midlife wraps (squeezes?) her loving arms around [...]
February 19, 2009
Lenten Specials
Tonight I’m headed over to Holy Communion to hear Bart Ehrman speak. While a technical scholar by training, Ehrman has recently gained popular acclaim for taking a controversial posture on issues such as forgeries/omissions in the New Testament, the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and the early efforts of the church to sideline [...]
January 18, 2009
Cafe 1912
Friday night we tried Midtown’s Cafe 1912. It serves mostly bistro French fare. What actually got us in the door was a recommendation we read a few years ago that raved about the two burgers on the menu. Plus, there was pommes frites, known crassly in our continent as French Fries. Thanks, Ronald. Or worse, [...]
January 14, 2009
Night at the Forum
We headed downtown tonight to redeem my Christmas gift from Andrea, tickets for the Cavaliers-Grizzlies game. Usually our seats for games are higher than Keith Richards on Kilimanjaro. Tonight we sat close.
We were low on Cavs gear. We came in street clothes. Andrea asked how people would know that we were there to see the [...]
January 6, 2009
Have You Ever Seen the Freezing Rain?
Today it was freezing cold outside. It was also raining. Mid-South meteorologists call it freezing rain. Apparently, this means that it is cold enough to be considered freezing (sub 32 degrees Fahrenheit), yet still too warm to make snow. But freezing rain is not snow. What we experienced today is something quite different. This is [...]
October 31, 2008
Feast of Great Minds
This picture was taken at the dinner for the W.B. West Lectures. These four are pillars of Old Testament scholarship (Professors Lewis, Manor, Fortner, and McMillion). If a Hebrew Bible Hall of Fame existed, it could easily pluck first-ballot candidates from this crew. If you pay close attention, you will see that their meal was ironically pork barbecue. In defense, they might simply reply, [...]
