Center For Southern Folklore

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After bouncing between various locations on or around Beale Street, this offbeat treasure that's part coffeehouse/part folk-art flea market has landed in Pembroke Square. Warm and welcoming, it's a laid-back space where you can get a meal or some munchies, sip a latte or a beer, surf the Internet, or buy anything from books, CDs, and postcards to handmade quilts and cornhusk dolls. Best of all,...

This San Diego institution carries just about everything you can imagine in the way of luggage, travel accessories, computer cases, handbags, and wallets; there's on-premises luggage repair, too. Open Monday to Friday 10am to 5:30pm, and Saturday 10am to 4pm. There is also a location in the Fashion Valley shopping center (tel. 619/574-0086 ) that has extended hours.

Folk-art finds and other interesting Delta-inspired gifts and souvenirs are affordably priced at this beloved Memphis nonprofit, known as the Center for Southern Folklore. It's a one-stop shop for soaking up the region's culture, from art, history, and food to live music.

The Center for Southern Folklore wears so many hats—archive, folk art dealer, cafe, live music venue – that the place spills into two adjacent addresses on Main Street. The exhibition gallery affords an intimate look at folk art and photography, while the extensive multimedia archive has been deemed a treasure by blues and folk music enthusiasts, with rare photos, footage and recordings of...

Center hosts customized cultural programs for groups of all ages. Maintains an exhibit hall that presents music, photographs, and media that showcase Memphis's rich cultural heritage. The voices and music of hundreds of men and women form the basic of the Center's Multimedia Archives. The Center is engaged in digitizing elements of the Archives so that this information can be available in...