{"id":594,"date":"2010-01-28T18:44:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/?p=594"},"modified":"2010-01-28T17:45:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:45:03","slug":"the-ny-times-discovers-indie-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/2010\/01\/28\/the-ny-times-discovers-indie-memphis\/","title":{"rendered":"The NY Times Discovers Indie Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if this is a good thing or not, but the NY Times has an article on their site that basically hits most of the cool spots around midtown Memphis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/31\/travel\/31next.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/31\/travel\/31next.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some choice quotes from the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecovememphis.com\">The Cove<\/a> has &#8220;a New Orleans style and a nautical theme, with a mast extending over  the bar, peeling paint (there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of peeling paint in Memphis),  ragged booths (ditto) and kitschy murals of sailors. The menu includes  oysters and Cafe du Monde coffee; movies along the lines of &#8220;Brazil&#8221;  play in lieu of sports.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;To flip through the bins of seven-inches at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shangri.com\">Shangri-La<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goner-records.com\">Goner Records<\/a> is to feel the weight of Southern, which is  to say American, musical history, gospel to blues to soul.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earnestineandhazels.com\/\">Ernestine  &amp; Hazel&#8217;s<\/a> was &#8220;once a dry goods store, for decades it operated  openly as a brothel on the second floor; the namesake owners were first  cousins whose husbands were cozy with the muckety-mucks at Stax and the  local law enforcement, according to legend.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Indie Memphis has its own community icons, chief among them Shirley  Williams, who has been serving drinks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/lamplighter-lounge-memphis\">Lamplighter<\/a> bar for nearly  40 years. The Lamp, as locals  call it,  is another Midtown dive. Opened  since 1932, it is the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oldest continuously operating bar and has  lately found its grungy slice of fame as the site of music videos for  the likes of Cat Power.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the real deal,&#8217; Archie Turner said as he packed up his keyboard  at 4 a.m. at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/wild-bills-memphis\">Wild Bill&#8217;s<\/a>, a dive bar, barbecue spot and soul joint that  is one of the area\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most belovedly ragged destinations.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Damn. I think they pretty much nailed it. Does anyone else have some suggestions for spots they missed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if this is a good thing or not, but the NY Times has an article on their site that basically hits most of the cool spots around midtown Memphis. http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/31\/travel\/31next.html Some choice quotes from the article: The Cove has &#8220;a New Orleans style and a nautical theme, with a mast extending over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95,74,59],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-indie","tag-memphis","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.truk.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}