Windrock Park is home to the 4th annual Winter Wonderland off-road adventure series. (Photo: Windrock Park via Facebook)

The Music City Hot Chicken was hot, hot, hot. As they say in Nashville, it’s hot on the inside and hot on the outside. It truly was. But it was also incredibly fun.  

I talked with fest fan Travis Jenkins, East Nashvillians Zach Layne and Andy Moss, both of them members of the Orange Grease Society, and with Austin Smith, founder and owner of Party Fowl, a hot chicken restaurant with several Nashville-area locations.

(Credit: Ansley Murphy)

Credit: Music City Hot Chicken Festival

Credit: Iroquois Steeplechase via Facebook

Memphis big river front park, Tom Lee Park, has undergone a $61 million transformation that’s origin friends, family, and visitors to the bank of Mississippi in droves.

Roaring River Distillery is a family-owned moonshine distillery in Gainesboro, Tennessee. (Photo credit: Roaring River Distillery)

Credit: Memphis Botanic Gardens

Garrett Boys is brothers Stephen and Russell, and Stepehn’s son, Carter. They perform in Portland Thursday.