Memphis

Pros: Friendly city, southern hospitality, absolute best barbecue in the world!
Cons: It's a long way from Atlanta, New York, or L.A. Is that really so bad?

Memphis will welcome you with open arms. This friendly city offers plenty of southern hospitality and there are a variety of activities to keep you occupied during your visit. The best times to visit are during the spring and fall. Springtime is ...

Pros: Great shopping at Wolfchase Galleria, Saddle Creek Shopping Center and Oak Court
Cons: Some of the older shopping areas are started to get abandoned

Memphis has many good places to help you part with your hard-earned money, especially during the holiday shopping season. If you're a shop-a-holic like me, you can put some of these on your list of places that you must visit or must avoid, depending upon...

Pros: Big City Life, Small Town Values
Cons: Lots of Crime

While writing a hometown write-off a few weeks ago, I discussed a time when we lived in Arkansas, and how much I disliked it. My husband and I moved to this small town from Atlanta, and I really resented the slow pace of that small Arkansas town....

Pros: Great for fans of rock and roll and the blues
Cons: If you're not a music fan, you may not find much to do

This past weekend, I drove 650 miles down to Memphis to see Bruuuce. The concert was at the Pyramid Arena. I thought to myself, "Self, this is great. I can closely study the arena and write an epinion about it. Then I can use the estimated $4.32...

Pros: Memphis is an area of history that has been alive for a long time.
Cons: Not the safest place in the world.

I was born and raised for the first 12 years of my life in Memphis, TN. I can say that during those 12 years I rarely saw the good spots of the city. We didn't have the money to spend to see them. But, now on visiting I'm seeing more and more of them....

Pros: Very nice rooms, free breakfast, Great theme
Cons: No indoor pool

After returning from our families recent vacation of which we spent the night at the Heart Break Hotel, I was eager to come home and write an Epinion on the place. I was disappointed to find that there was not a specific subject for the hotel, so this...

Pros: Great Place for Elvis Fans
Cons: House needed some repairs outside

I must admit that growing up I was a big fan of Elvis Presley. I have always wanted to visit Graceland and my husband made the wish to visit the King's House come true.

We packed up our car and drove from Dallas, Texas to Memphis, TN in one...

Pros: Grand esteate, beautiful gardens, and fabulous Impressionist paintings.
Cons: Hours not wildly convenient.

If you can possibly make the time to visit the Dixon, do so! I was surprised, on a recent trip, to find that few of the Memphis residents I met had ever visited here! There are 3 separate and equally spectacular parts to this visit: the house, the...

Pros: It's where Elvis lived
Cons: It's where Elvis doesn't live anymore

Sometimes the mystery is all we have. Mystery is usually the best part of anything anyway. When Elvis was alive the gates at Graceland swung open only at his behest. When those famous gates were closed, the mansion on the hill looked large, important...

Pros: Duck March, lobby bar, enjoy without a "sleep over!"
Cons: None I can think of.

Part of the Memphis scene for more than 120 years, the Peabody Hotel is a great sampling of the grace and charm of the South. While I didn't stay in the Peabody during my recent visit to Memphis, I visited after work more than once. The lobby is grand...

Pros: The city is brimming with history, including this museum
Cons: -

Do any of you remember where you were on this evening in 1968? Chances are, if you recall that this particular night of April 4 marks the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., you'll be able to tell me where you were and what...

Pros: Live entertainment, fun atmosphere, OK food, usually no cover charge.
Cons: Not usually world class blues, "touristy" atmosphere.

The range of epinions about Beale Street runs the gamut from "The Best Blues is on Beale" (M Lee Williams; 1/11/00) to "Beale Street is for suckers!" I just returned from a visit (while in Memphis on a business trip) and my epinion...

Pros: FUN FUN FUN FUN
Cons: LONG LONG DAY

I am putting this under Memphis and not Graceland because this has more than just Graceland in it. I have never lived very far from Memphis. I was raised about 2 hours from Memphis. I have been to Memphis many times. I have been to Graceland several t ...

Pros: Music history is brought to life here in a very enjoyable way.
Cons: I didn't have my camera!

I touched something today that Elvis Presley touched! The microphone that he used to record some of his very earliest recordings.. I touched it! Really, I did! (swoon)

Okay, so I'm not really a fanatic. In fact, I wasn't even born when Elvis...

Pros: Amazing fried pickles, excellent sauce, great value.
Cons: The beer selection is only adequate, and there really isn't a wine list.

Memphis has been home to a Pig-N-Whistle bar-b-que restaurant, in one incarnation or another, for better than fifty years. The restaurants have been locally owned and operated since 1990, and the original opened in the 1930s. Of course, the...