Paul Ryburn’s Journal

I had a great time at the Center for Southern Folklore’s Memphis Music and Heritage Festival.  Seems like it keeps getting better every year… more people attending, better bands, better variety.  Great food too, inside the folklore hall… I had some homemade chili yesterday.  They have meat and vegetarian varieties.  They also have BBQ shoulder sandwiches, [...]

The CA had an article this morning announcing that the rumors are true:  East Memphis restaurant Interim will take over the Daily Grill.  The restaurant will not be named Interim (they have yet to pick a name) and will emphasize fresh fish, although there will also be chicken, burgers, steaks, oysters, and other menu items.  More [...]

While researching listings for my new happy hour search engine, I happened upon an article from a Denver newspaper listing some Ladies’ Night promotions. I was especially intrigued by this one:

“The Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St. The Walnut’s ingenious ‘Tube Top Sundays’ provides ladies clad thusly with free drinks from 2-5 PM.”

Attn Memphis bars, restaurants and [...]

My new search engines are ready for rollout.  Here’s the scoop on each one:

Happy hour and drink special search engine – on this page you can search for happy hours and daily drink specials in your area by city/state or zip code, and by day.  I’ve added about 25 listings for Downtown Memphis, but eventually I [...]

Here’s the complete schedule for the 2008 Memphis Music & Heritage Festival, to be held Saturday and Sunday on the Main Street Mall at Peabody Place/Gayoso.

And here are my picks:

Saturday
noon Greg Hisky & his Dixie Whisky Flyers (Peabody Place at Main stage)
noon Jimmy Crosthwait – puppet show (Trolley Stop Stage)
1:15 PM Charlie Wood (Folklore Store stage)
1:30 [...]

Real quick update because this one’s time sensitive… just found out that the Majestic Grille will have Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech on their big screen tonight, with sound.

Hmmm… I still have gift cards left to use… I may have just figured out my [...]

I typed up a “Reading this week’s Memphis Flyer so you don’t have to” post last night, but about the time I finished it, Comcast slowed to a halt and I couldn’t post.  Checked to see if I could jump on my neighbor “linksys”‘s network, but it wasn’t available either.  It was about 11 PM.  “No Internet, [...]

I just got a hold of the specials the Red Rooster will be running for football season.  Here they are:

Yesterday I wrote that I had heard there was a death related to the Bon Tom Cafe.  I’m sad to have since learned that it was Sam, the owner.  Thanks to one of my readers for sending this to me.

Sammy Zambelis, owner & manager of the Bon Ton Cafe, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday morning.  He [...]

Fellow blogger Buck Daddy saw my “Where to watch college football Downtown” post and linked to it.  He then typed up his own list of places to watch college football in East Memphis and East Bumblefuck.  Here’s [...]