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In what has to be one of the best Memphis area guides Dr Hoo’s Memphis Restaurants is a trustworthy guide to eating in Memphis.

Dr Hoo writes:

Sensing a great void in the lives of Memphians, my wife and I decided to start a blog describing our experiences at local restaurants. We eat out whenever we can and thought it would be fun to share those experiences with whoever is interested in Memphis food. We’ll see where this takes us!

The posts are easy to read and cover a large swath of restaurants in one of the best dining cities in the country. While their are other good memphis food blogs such as Squirrel Squad, Dr Hoo’s is what I read when I want to know what to eat in Memphis

If you don’t have a copy of E’s first Christmas album you should pick it up. It was #1 for 4 weeks on Billboard’s chart in 1957 and continued to chart each holiday season for a decade.

It has recently become available on itunes. Check out a sample:

Blue Christmas . White Christmas

Or maybe you want something a little more tactile, how bout this Big E christmas ornament.

On January 11 in Memphis, many of the more than 6,000 bloggers, YouTubers, Politicians, musicians, celebrities, activists and citizens who form the core of SavetheInternet.com Coalition will come together on the eve of the National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis.

They’ve booked the Gibson Guitar Factory from 9 p.m. until closing. They’ll be a DJ, booze and dancing. We’ll be projecting dozens of videos created by YouTube activists throughout the year.

When you have questions with lifes burning questions, Magic Elvis has the answer. Just type in your question and pull the lever to see what sage advice you get from the king.

The Armchair Postmodernist Hillbilly has posted a nice little article about why Memphis is Memphis and will always be Memphis:

There has always been lots of discussion around the economic surge in Nashville and why Memphis has been mired in stagnation. Many people blame “white flight”…the movement of the upper middle class east of the city, to Germantown and Collierville and south to Desoto County.
But in reality Memphis voters, whoever they are, have held the future of Memphis in their hands for years

Click on over to his site to read the whole thing.

Over on the Starling Travel Blog there is a good post by Laura Moncur about the Neon Museum in Vegas:

I only had one thing on my list for this trip to Las Vegas. I wanted to see the Neon Museum that’s on Fremont Street. I had never been to the Fremont Street Experience, which is a travesty since I’ve been to Las Vegas so many times. There were only two interesting things at the Fremont Street Experience. One of them was Deep Fried Oreos at Mermaids and the other was the Neon Museum.

The Museum’s mission is to collect, preserve, study and exhibit neon signs and associated artifacts to inspire educational and cultural enrichment for diverse members of our international community.

Not sure how much cultural enrichment one would glean froma trip, but it sure does look fun.

All of us know Bettie Page; this girl is something else. Those pictures, man they still drive everyone crazy. A movie, “The Notorious Bettie Page,” is coming out in April that be, you know, kinda fun.

Don’t forget to check out the Official Bettie Page site as well as and check out Bettie on Bettie.

Yep, that’s right, you can be the proud owner of The king’s Memphis home. This is the first house he bought when he made a little scratch. Elvis only lived there a short time, but come on, how often can you live in one of Big E’s homes!

The bidding begins on April 14th and the auction will run for a month. The address of this ranch style house is 1034 Audubon Drive, right near the university of Memphis campus.

The Tupelo Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Elvis Presley Festival have announced the dates for the 50th Anniversary of Elvis� Homecoming to Tupelo, Mississippi at the 8th Annual Elvis Presley Festival!

This year the Festival will be held June 2-4, 2006, and the lineup has not been officially announced yet.

Relive the day in 1956 when Tupelo�s most famous native son came home for the first time to perform as a star. Festivities begin on Friday,June 2nd with the 8th Annual Elvis Presley Festival, featuring a fabulous music line-up and fun festival activities in a family-friendly atmosphere!

You can download the flier for the festival here.

Looks like it is going to be a great time, and Tupelo is a cool little city in North Mississippi, if you haven’t ever been you owe it to yourself to check it out.

While I was crusing the interwebs the other day I found myself browsing some great information about Rockabilly Girls: PBS has an awesome feature called Welcome to the club, because before Big E was the King, these ladies were the queens. Make sure that you check out the rockabilly timeline - great stuff.

There is also the fantastic Rockabilly Girls which is ground zero for the girls that shine with that rockabilly spirit. And then there is THE rockabilly babe.

If you want to see some fantastic BillyRockin’ girls in person, make sure you check out The Rockabilly Party Weekend - Viva Las Vegas 9 that runs from April 13th through the16th. If you can’t make it out to vegas, you can see a bunch of photos of billyrockin girls here.