Peggy Burch

• Dining Review: Bold flavors executed well, Southern style Published 02/09/2012 at 6:07 p.m.

  At first glance, the menu at eighty3 food & drink is as dazzling as the room itself, which glows under halogen lights. There are 11 categories on the dinner list -- starting with bar snacks of nuts and bacon, progressing ...

• Football star Michael Oher signs his memoir at Collierville Published 02/06/2012 at 12:14 p.m.

  The day Michael Oher signed “I Beat the Odds” a year ago at Davis-Kidd Booksellers, the store sold more than 1,200 copies. Oher’s publisher says 3,500 people attended the event. “That’s still unbelievable,” Oher says of the turnout. Now his ...

• Dining Review: Hearty Italian chow at Ciao Published 02/02/2012 at 6:44 p.m.

  At 7 p.m. Saturday night, we were among a couple of dozen people queued up at Ciao Bella near the commercial heart of the Poplar corridor. A man and woman who arrived at the front desk ahead of us heard ...

• Author Kim Edwards comes to Memphis for Literacy Is Key Published 01/19/2012 at 7:08 p.m.

  On tour with the paperback edition of her second novel, "The Lake of Dreams," Kim Edwards will stop in Memphis Thursday to appear at the second annual "Literacy Is Key" event.

• Quiet Midtown life belied posh past Published 01/08/2012 at midnight

  During the last 25 years of his life, the photographer and graphic designer Jack Robinson worked in Memphis stained-glass studios, lived alone, and made no effort to inform the people around him about his glamorous past.

• Time doesn’t dull travel stories of Memphian Richard Halliburton Published 01/02/2012 at 1:59 p.m.

  Calling one-time Memphian Richard Halliburton “America’s greatest adventurer” sounds like hyperbole — until you read a few chapters of “The Glorious Adventure,” subtitled “Through the Mediterranean in the Wake of Odysseus.”

• Retracing the paths of flight pioneers Published 12/08/2011 at 6:52 p.m.

  The 40-year-old University Press of Mississippi is based in Jackson and supported by Mississippi's state universities, but its list of titles often embraces Memphis. Consider "Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis," for instance, or "You Must Be ...

• Dining Review: Slider just beginning of Inn Published 12/01/2011 at 4:30 p.m.

  The Midtown intersection of Peabody and Cooper got a burst of vitality over the past decade as a diverse collection of businesses -- Midtown Yoga, the Eclectic Eye, Café 1912, the Nail and Skin Bar -- moved in and created ...

• Hillary Jordan in Memphis to sign "When She Woke" Published 11/27/2011 at 12:05 a.m.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote "The Scarlet Letter" 150 years ago, and set it in colonial America 350 years ago, but contemporary author Hillary Jordan had an oddly easy time adapting the story for her current work.

• Randall Kenan at University of Memphis; David Sedaris at GPAC Published 11/03/2011 at 6:49 p.m.

  The River City Writers Series will bring author Randall Kenan to the University of Memphis for a reading Monday and an interview Tuesday.

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