Paul Ryburn’s Journal

Members of one of the top bands at this past weekend’s folk festival, Madrigaia, will be performing tonight (Tuesday) at Otherlands at 9:30.

Madrigaia consists of 7 vocalists and 1 percussionist. They sing in 16 languages; after the festival, half the band went home, and half stayed here. The four who are still here in [...]

Took some NyQuil last night to fight off the bug that seems to be going around lately, particularly at my office. It led to some interesting dreams.

In the first dream, I attended the black-tie carinval coronation ball that fellow bloggers Ptolemy Kat and Philip attended last Saturday at the University Club. Only in my [...]

The ladies of VDay Memphis e-mailed me and asked if I could mention their upcoming event. “We’re a lively group of Memphis ladies – students, moms, professionals, artists, teachers, theater folks – from all backgrounds, ages, and ethnic groups – who work hard to put together this annual show to benefit local battered women and [...]

Yesterday the former Sleep Out Louie’s Sunday brunch crew took the show on the road to the Majestic Grille, on the Main Street Mall between Gayoso and Peabody Place. They treated us like kings and we had a great time.

I had the smoked salmon hash browns ($9), pictured above, which consisted of hashbrowned new potatoes [...]

Kevin Barbieux, a Nashville resident who writes The Homeless Guy blog, has a new article at AssociatedContent.com entitled How Best to Help the Homeless. If you live downtown and are wondering what constructive, positive steps you can take to help, this would be a good place to start.

Also, this is a good thing because AssociatedContent.com [...]

The Sunday brunch crew will move to The Majestic Grille tomorrow morning to continue our weekly tradition. Here’s a February 14 post listing their brunch menu. Those smoked salmon hashbrowns are sounding mighty good right now.

Their brunch hours are 11 to 3. Patrick and Deni… get ready. From what I’ve heard this [...]

I took my Big Mouth Billy Bass to the Flying Fish last night and they hung it on the wall. It’s the last one on the right.

Here are the adoption rules:

And here’s the free meal I got in exchange for Billy Bass:

I talked to John the manager and they also accept Travis Trout and all [...]

- John Streeter from Sharp Flowers e-mailed me and asked me to let Downtowners know that he’s looking for a new location. Sharp Flowers was on the Main Street Mall at the Peabody Place trolley stop for several years, but there just wasn’t enough exposure in that location. If you know of a space [...]

http://memphislimelight.com/b3.html

That’s not the main page, but close enough.

Among other things, she has a good post called “Full Service” on this page. It details the advantages of being kind to the waitresses and bartenders who serve you. This is a drunk post so I can’t resist: Attn Dumbass: Read this post. This [...]

My quest to find a Big Mouth Billy Bass has ended, thanks to one of my regular readers at Downtown Books. “Downtown Walgreens has them,” he told me. “Go to the condom aisle… when you get in front of the condoms, turn around and you’ll see it on the top shelf.” He was [...]