Paul Ryburn’s Journal

Here’s what’s going on tonight.  I don’t have a Memphis Flyer handy (the bums sold them all before I could get to the box) so this may be a little less complete than usual:

Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Monster on the Peabody rooftop, 6-10 PM, $5 cover, ladies free until 8 PM.  Final rooftop party of the [...]

Met a couple of regular blog readers at the Saucer last night, and had a great conversation with them.  One of the questions they asked was, “There are certain restaurants and bars Downtown you never mention.  Does that mean you don’t like them, or don’t recommend them, or have had bad experiences there?”

Maybe, maybe not.

There are [...]

Does your work have a content filter that blocks some of your favorite sites?  Here’s a possible way to do an end-run around the filter.  There’s a new service called WebToMail that will e-mail to you any web page you request.  Here’s how it works:

1) Send an e-mail to send@webtomail.co.cc, with the URL of the site [...]

Update Fri 7/31:  The assault actually happened in the parking garage across the alley.  The woman was talking on her cell phone, so she was somewhat distracted and not paying attention to her surroundings.  The individual described below followed her into the garage and assaulted her as she was waiting for the elevator.

I’ve also learned that [...]

Posting on my lunch break from the Second Street Branch Office.

For those of you who miss Wednesday trivia nights at McGuinness, there’s a new place to play trivia right up the street. The Corner Bar at the Peabody (Second at Union) does trivia every Wednesday night starting at 8 PM. I’ve heard it’s pretty [...]

Vincent Marshall, 39, was arrested today at the Central Parking lot at Main and Peabody Place, according to this My Eyewitness News story.  A couple told police that after they had parked at the lot, Marshall walked up and told them the machine that takes parking fees was broken, but that he’d take their $7.  After [...]

Last night I did Pint Nite at the Saucer, where my Hawaiian Shirt Paradise store received a testimonial from my friend Bicycle Bobby. “I bought a shirt from the store,” he told me, pictured below. “It is by far THE BEST Hawaiian shirt I have ever owned.” That is not faint praise by any means – [...]

If you look at the upper left corner of this blog, you’ll see the newest feature, What’s the Fire Sale? Every day, the Flying Saucer puts one of their draft beers on “Fire Sale” for $2.75, except Monday, when it’s Pint Nite and most drafts are $2.75.  But which beer?  That’s the burning question.  Since I [...]

The police are throwing us a party!  Next Tuesday, August 5, MPD will hold their third annual National Night Out at the South Main Substation, at the corner of Main and GE Patterson.  There will be a live DJ, food, games and fun.  MPD Director Larry Godwin will provide opening remarks, and we will also hear [...]

Now and then I’ll be going about my business around Downtown, and people will stop me and ask to talk to me for a few minutes.  Lately many of the conversations have gone like this:

“Downtown will never be a real neighborhood until we have a grocery store.  I think you should make that the main focus [...]