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Summary graphic: With the top rope blocking the view of his eyes, Walker Hayes steps into the ring wearing a shirt showing his name in heavy metal font and a wolf surrounded by bloody bones.

Rec Room Wrestling: We Put Our Bodies Through Hell For The Crowd

2018-04-29
On: 04/29/2018
In: Memphis

Memphis’s Broad Avenue Brawl involved chairs, poles, buckets, and plenty of flying bodies. This bar-room wrestling match provided the sort of unregulated fun you could never get at a WWE arena event.

Summary graphic: A camping trailer used as a mobile food truck, hitched to a pickup truck which is stopped at a gas station along Lamar Avenue south of 240. The trailer is emblazoned with graffiti-style lettering reading “Kailynn's Lunch Box.”

New Photos, New Map: Returning to Memphis, April 2018

2018-04-16
On: 04/16/2018
In: American Travel, Memphis, Photo Essays

It’s time to go back to Memphis, a city that continues to hold our attention. Even as it grows and changes, it remains a city with a true sense of self.

What Leonard’s Pork Volcano Taught Us About Being “Memphis Famous”

2017-12-29
On: 12/29/2017
In: Memphis, Memphis BBQ

Leonard’s Pit Barbecue is one of the oldest and “top” spots in one of America’s barbecue capitals, but it has very little national hype. We went to find out why.

Summary graphic: An older man teaches a younger one how to play the drums, with paintings of Rock-A-Billy legends behind them.

The Call or: How Henry Harrison Made Us Remember Elvis as a Man, Not a King

2017-11-22
On: 11/22/2017
In: Near South

Henry Harrison, owner of The International Rock-a-Billy Hall of Fame Museum, wants you to know Elvis, Carl, and Johnny as people, not as mythic titans of music and history.

Summary graphic: El Escapado performs at Memphis Punk Rock Fest 2016

Memphis Punk Rock Fest 2016: No Sponsors, All Risk

2016-07-03
On: 07/03/2016
In: Memphis, Music

Night 2 of Memphis Punk Rock Fest 4 featured ten bands, one smoker, and a community coming together, not once, but twice to support its own.

Summary graphic: A photo of Hattie’s Tamales food truck on Lamar Ave. in Memphis, TN

Our “Memphis” Portfolio, Spring 2016 Edition

2016-04-30
On: 04/30/2016
In: Memphis, Photo Essays

“Memphis” is an evolving portrait of an American city’s people, places, creative energy, and how each shapes the others over time.

Summary graphic: A cheeseburger with barbecue pork atop it, next to two small dishes of sides.

Tops Bar-B-Q: Home of the Barbecue Cheeseburger (Memphis, TN)

2015-08-26
On: 08/26/2015
In: Memphis, Memphis BBQ

We like barbecue. We like cheeseburgers. In Memphis, the Tops Bar-B-Q franchise is known as the place to go for a barbecue cheeseburger.

It’s All About That Interaction

2015-05-27
On: 05/27/2015
In: American Barbecue

We learned about barbecue by asking questions and taking photos. On June 3, 2015 we discussed that process at Boston’s Photographic Resource Center.

Up All Night: Craig Meek’s Memphis Barbecue Release Party

2014-07-27
On: 07/27/2014
In: Memphis, Memphis BBQ

The best description of Craig Meek’s Memphis Barbecue came around 2 a.m.: “You wrote a book about your city through [freaking] barbecue. How cool is that?!”

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