Remembering Royal Castle Hamburgers
Elsewhere in this blog I have discussed Mahalia Jackson’s Fried Chicken and its troubled parent company Performance Systems, owned by former Tennessee gubernatorial candidate John …
Elsewhere in this blog I have discussed Mahalia Jackson’s Fried Chicken and its troubled parent company Performance Systems, owned by former Tennessee gubernatorial candidate John …
Memphis vocal group The Mad Lads were another group of South Memphians, led by John Gary Williams, who recorded a number of singles and albums …
I understand that you support your Clippers, just as I understand that we support our Grizzlies. But in your attempt to be humorous or cynical, …
Incredibly, just over a year ago in Memphis, local media was talking about demolition of the historic Chisca Hotel on South Main Street. After all, …
Every Southern city had at least one “pleasure street” in its Black community, where there were night clubs, restaurants and large arenas for public gatherings. …
I have often wondered why West Tennessee has less of a blues culture than North Mississippi. Aside from bluesmen associated with Memphis like Gus Cannon …
At the end of the band’s final set at BJ’s Secret, I decided to head back to Central Avenue through the surrounding neighborhood, and came …
Sometime in the last five to ten years, Clarksdale renamed Fourth Street for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and while Dr. King is certainly deserving, …
This is one of those kinds of places that you wish the walls could talk, and you try to imagine what it must have been …
As I was driving down Highway 3 into the Mississippi Delta, I happened upon this small town called Vance, and immediately noticed a historic marker …