Story Ideas

Hundreds of Memphis Story Ideas: Stories of Memphis run as deep as the mighty Mississippi. Help yourself to a few of these.

• Annual Events - Learn more about Memphis in May, Elvis Week and festivals.
• Arts - From kitchy to classic. Memphis is full of museums, gardens and galleries.
• Barbecue - With about 100 restaurants dedicated to just this, there must be something to it!
• Black History - Civil Rights, The Blues, Soul - it's all part of our heritage.
• Eclectic Restaurants - Don't be surprised to find anything from wild boar chops to ostrich.
• Family Entertainment - The pandas, the IMAX, Mud Island River Park - it's all waiting for you!
• Film - Hustle and Flow, 21 Grams, The Firm and many more have filmed here.
• Live Music - You will literally find hundreds of venues and hundreds of bands in this city.
• Mississippi River - Take a riverboat cruise or join us for Memphis in May right on the river bank.
• Musical Meccas - Sun Studios, Graceland, Stax. Need we say more?
• Musical Pioneers - W.C. Handy and B.B. King. Isaac Hayes and David Porter. We have a full legacy.
• Parks and Outdoors - Visit sprawling parks with bison to Tom Lee Park right on the river.
• Places to Meet - State-of-the-art facilities right in the middle of a city that's all soul.
• Places to Stay - You can find grand rooms, unique rooms, and cozy rooms here in Memphis.
• Shopping - Shop the big department stores or the niche eclectic shops of Midtown and South Main.
• Soul Food/Home Cooking - Fried chicken anyone? How about a meat and three?
• Sports - Grizzlies, Memphis Tigers, Memphis Redbirds and first class venues to watch them all play.
• Tours - See the sights by carriage, trolley, bus or on foot.

Convention Trade: The perfect mix for the perfect meeting location. State of the art venues and the intoxicating city vibe make Memphis the obvious choice for your next meeting or convention.

• A Perfect Harmony of Music, Attractions & Entertainment
• A Star among Movie Locations, Memphis Rolls Out
• Bio-Med, Barbecue & the Blues, Memphis has the Right Prescription
• Rich in Culture and Musical Heritage
• The Best of the South: Memphis Has an Accent All its Own

What Others Are Saying: The word is out. Memphis is loved by writers around the world. Read their stories here.

• Fodor's Names Graceland Among It's Top 10 Favorites - 6/24/2008
  

  Memphis' Graceland is named in Fodor's Top 10 Tourist Traps We Love.  Grasceland joins the ranks amongs such destinations as The Amalfi Coast, The Eiffel Tower, The Mona Lisa, and Niagara Falls to name a few.

• LIFE's Dream Destinations: 100 of the World’s Best Vacations - 5/27/2008
  Visit Snowdonia and Reykjavik, Rajasthan, Denali, The Forbidden City and Cuzco, As Well as Six “Impossible Dream” Destinations, from Your Living Room
  
  
• Atlanta, Memphis Mark 40th Anniversary of MLK's Death - 3/17/2008
  Forums, exhibits and other events are scheduled in Memphis and Atlanta to mark the 40th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
  
• Where Time Stands Still - 3/15/2008
  It was a small detail, really. The air conditioner had been left on in the cramped motel room, its thin stream of air ruffling the pages of a newspaper tossed carelessly onto the bed. And yet it was that simple detail that brought the exhibit to life.
• Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - 2/1/2008
  Retrace the path to equality at the National Civil Rights Museum as it commemorates the 40th anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
• Destination: Memphis, Tenn - 1/12/2008
  GET AWAY: Love Memphis, but can't take another Graceland tour? Visit Jan. 31-Feb. 2 for what's expected to be the biggest International Blues Challenge competition yet, with 160 acts from eight countries competing in clubs up and down Beale Street.
• Take a Walk Down Beale Street - Memphis, Tennessee - 12/14/2007
  you're walking in Memphis, you'll want to take a stroll down to Beale Street and see where the blues began. This 2 mile stretch of city street is the home of B.B. King, Louis Armstrong, Muddy Waters, and Rufus Thomas to name just a few.
• Hotel Duck Flap, Part II - 12/1/2007
  2008 will mark the 75th anniversary of the ducks in residence at The Peabody. Quackers were put in the hotel fountain as a prank by the then-general manager, she says, "after a hunting trip and a little bit too much Jack Daniels.
• Elvis "Tribute" Hopefuls Vie to Win over Graceland - 8/17/2007
  The King is dead. Long live the King – of Elvis tribute artists
  The Union Tribune, SignOnSan Diego, San Diego, CA
• Nightlife on Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee - Newsday.com, Melville, NY - 8/10/2007
  Although I don't own a single Elvis Presley record, I've always had a thing for the King. When Paul Simon sang, "I'm going to Graceland, Graceland ... Memphis, Tennessee," I wanted to pack my bags and go along for the adventure.
• 30th Anniversary of ‘Elvis Week’ Live from Graceland Exclusively on Sirius’ Elvis® Radio: New York, NY - 8/9/2007
  SIRIUS Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) will air exclusive coverage of Elvis Week 2007 on Elvis Radio, channel 13.  Fans can tune in August 11 through August 17 to hear live special broadcasts, including back-stage coverage of Elvis:  The 30th Anniversary Concert, and The 3rd Annual SIRIUS Satellite Radio Candlelight Vigil show hosted by lo
• Still the King - Times Daily, Florence, AL - 8/8/2007
  Thirty years after his death at 42, Elvis Presley remains everything to everyone. He's the American dream and nightmare all rolled into one.
  What a life.
• Raise Your Hand - MSN.com, Redmond, WA - 8/1/2007
  With this week's premiere of the PBS documentary "Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story on Great Performances," one of the great chapters in popular American music is reopened and set before the public...
• Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story - Variety, Los Angeles, CA - 7/31/2007
  Without making a direct declaration, Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville's bracingly impressive docu "Respect Yourself" makes a great case for Stax Records as the greatest soul label ever. Without making a direct declaration, Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville's bracingly impressive docu "Respect Yourself" makes a great case for Stax Records as the grea
• A Southern Sound Check along the "Music Highway" - LA Times, Los Angeles, CA - 7/21/2007
  Knowing how obsessed Elvis fans can be, I wasn't surprised when my wife and I drove up to the Heartbreak Hotel and found, true to the song's lyrics, that it was actually "down at the end of Lonely Street" and that the desk clerk was "dressed in black.
• Respect Your Stax - Los Angeles City Beat: Los Angeles, CA - 7/15/2007
  The “50 Years of Stax” concert – set for this Wednesday, July 18, at the Hollywood Bowl – should be the most soulful local summer soiree since the storied record label promoted the semi-legendary “Wattstax” festival that reportedly drew 100,000 people to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum back in 1972.
• Memphis Tunes up to Celebrate 9 Days of Burning Elvis Love - USA Today, McLean, VA - 7/1/2007
  There'll be a whole lot of Elvis goin' on in Memphis August 11-19, when record numbers of fans descend on the city to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the icon's death on August 16, 1977.