Category: Flyer Video

“Karen, what are you doing?”

Karen Carrier has heard that phrase more than once during her long, fascinating career.

If you’ve ever wondered about all the hair dryers in Cooper-Young’s Beauty Shop Restaurant, Carrier gives you the lowdown in the final We Saw You episode featuring the Memphis restaurateur/artist. And as a bonus, you’ll hear the history of her underground music club, Bar DKDC.

We’ll be back with more interviews with interesting Memphians and Mid-Southerners soon on We Saw You. But first, here’s Karen.

 In this We Saw You episode, Karen Carrier, the Memphis artist and restaurateur who owns Beauty Shop Restaurant, DKDC, Mollie Fontaine Lounge, and Another Roadside Attraction catering, talks about meeting her husband, the late Bob Carrier. “I go to to New York to meet a guy from Memphis,” she says.

This is one of my favorite episodes of the new We Saw You video series. Restaurateur/artist Karen Carrier tells me how she got into cooking. In the 1980s, she was living in New York, where she was going to go to graduate school. But she had to “figure out a way to make a living.”

You need to hear Carrier talk about all this. Her life sounds like a novel I’d like to read. And re-read.

We continue our interview with restaurateur/artist Karen Carrier. This is episode four, which is part of the We Saw You video series — hosted by yours truly — about Memphians and Mid-Southerners.

In this episode, Carrier and I sat down at her home while she talked about her aunt, Gloria Sklen, who lived in New York. 

Sklen, who sounds like the eccentric bohemian Auntie Mame was a mosaic artist and “just wild,” Carrier says. “I was just mesmerized by her.”