Coffee and Comfort in Somerville
Coffee is America’s most popular drink, and its popularity is rapidly spreading to rural America. Once people had to drive to the big city like …
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Spring in Memphis
Memphis has been getting rough treatment from media recently, but the city is at its best in springtime. It is fun to venture downtown sometimes, …
Celebrating the Legendary Blues Researcher Axel Kustner in West Point, Mississippi
German blues researcher Axel Kustner was one of the last blues field workers to comb the southern United States looking for bluesmen, and he was …
Getting A Local Buzz at Biloxi’s Jacked Up Coffee Bar
Coffee these days has become corporate big business, and national and regional chains are everywhere, especially in a resort area like the Mississippi Coast. So …
A Feeling of Camaraderie at Congregation Coffee
Built on the site of a former church, Germantown’s new Congregation Coffee is a locally-owned alternative to the big chain coffee shops that are opening …
Great Wood-Fired Pizzas at Oxford’s Fergndans
It may be too early to talk about a North Mississippi style of pizza, but the northern part of the Magnolia State has some great …
A Memphis Breakfast In A Secluded Spot
Not that long ago, the Tennessee Brewery was an abandoned ruin that was facing demolition, but its restoration as a condominium development has transformed the …
More Beignets at MoBay in Midtown
To me, “MoBay” refers to Montego Bay in Jamaica, which I visited in the 1990s, so when I heard that a place was opening called …
Food and Fun at New Albany’s Big Annual Day
New Albany, Mississippi is one of the Hill Country region’s more prosperous towns, and that was true even before the construction of the Toyota plant …
Great Coffee in Little Rock’s East Village at Fidel & Company
Say “East Village” and most people probably think of New York City, but since the opening of the Clinton Presidential Library and the nearby headquarters …