Paul Ryburn’s Journal

- The Orpheum will have their 12th annual art & antiques auction Sunday, July 1. See below for details:

As the poster above indicates, they’ll have a special preview Friday, June 29 from 6-7 as part of the South Main Trolley Art Tour, with free eats and booze. Should be a good time – last [...]

Ever walked the streets of Downtown when there’s even a 20% possibility of rain? All the bums will be out, carrying the rattiest-looking umbrellas on Earth. If as much as one drop falls from the sky, they’ll open their umbrellas and rush over to you. “Here, sir, let me keep you dry,” they’ll [...]

Downtown Night in the Westin lobby tonight, 5:30-7:30 PM – happy hour prices, free appetizers, Di Anne Price on the piano.

I’ll probably be there but not long – busy working all afternoon, will probably hit the Saucer around 5:45ish to have one beer, recruit people to go to the Westin, and to see if any of [...]

In past years many of you have seen me walking around in a 38103 T-shirt. 38103, of course, is the Downtown Memphis zip code, so it’s a way to represent downtown. A lot of people have asked me where I got the shirt – my friend Ryan made and sold them, but they’ve been [...]

Last week the Memphis Business Journal had an article about business offices opening for One Beale, the new ultra-luxury hi-rise condo/hotel building being built at Beale and Riverside. Last night I was thinking to myself, you know, I should buy one of those condos.

You see, last night I was going to go out for an [...]

Last year I wrote about being invited to be Club Six-1-Six’s MySpace friend, seven years after the club closed its doors for the last time. Well, there’s now another nightclub of the past that has been resurrected on MySpace… Raiford’s.

Let’s get some atmosphere up in here! This is gonna be a night we ALL [...]

Once again, I never made it to the Peabody last night after saying I was going to go – went to the Saucer then EP’s, and remained at EP’s until God knows when. It was a good night last night though – got several tube top photos. The previous Thursday I had a blog [...]

Just checked Amy W’s blog and found that Circa opens today. You can check their website to find out all about them. Quick summary: Dinner entrees in the $teens and $20s, huge wine selection, located in the Pembroke Square building on the Main Street Mall, in the old Market on Main space. [...]

- My friends and I have been wrestling with the issue of exchanging photos since last Halloween. There are several of us with digital cameras, and we’ve tried exchanging photos by burning CDs, passing flash drives around, and trying free online file-sharing services. Nothing seemed to work very well.

Well, today I decided to do [...]

Today at 2 PM you can log on to the Memphis Grizzlies website and chat live with new coach Marc Iavaroni. You can also get on the site in advance and submit your questions.

And, although it has nothing to do with the topic of this post, here’s a pic of The Nuh-Uh Sister in a [...]