Tomorrow will be a big day at the Cooper-Young festival, but first, there’s some stuff going on tonight.
The second in the series of Alley Jams concerts happens at Main and Gayoso. Grace Askew and Venus Mission will perform. Vendor sales start at 4:30; bands at 5. Concert will be followed by “Curious Pictures,” a digital art projection by the UrbanArt Commission.
Also tonight, MPACT Memphis is having a “Late Night” event at Mesquite Chop House. Chef Michael Patrick is extending happy hour to 11 PM, and 20% of the proceeds from the whole night go back to MPACT. Come eat some of Mike’s excellent food and support this fine organization.
Tonight is also Game 3 of the PCL championship at AutoZone Park at 7:05 PM.
And then tomorrow is the big day… Cooper-Young Fest. Say hello if you see me… I plan on riding a cab down there 10:30ish, and after that I plan on being somewhere within the boundaries of the festival until it ends at 7. Probably going to wear my purple BBQ team shirt. Hopefully being out in the sun all day will lighten my hair and help toward getting it back to the color it was before I dyed it for Stumbling Elvis.
Here’s a link to the Action News 5 story featuring Bardog’s Jean as Server of the Week and Demitrie as Chef of the Week.
Got an e-mail from an old friend, David the Worm, this morning. He’ll be opening for DJ Trashy at Rehab Disco tomorrow night.
Diversity Memphis will host a 5K walk starting and ending at the National Civil Rights Museum on Sunday. It will be a celebration of the different cultures in the community, and before and after there will be entertainment including Los Cantadores, Winston Stewart, and the Bar-Kays. Registration opens at 12:30 PM, walk at 2. More info here.
There will be a pirate festival Downtown this weekend – Saturday at Mud Island and Sunday at the Metal Museum. Details here.
Poker last night at Calhoun’s took an unexpected turn… about 20 minutes into the game, my screen on my Buzztime Playmaker box got dimmer and dimmer… by the 30-minute mark my box had completely died, leaving me on the virtual poker table, sitting out with about 8,000 in chips. Kitty was kind enough to let me borrow her box and I was able to log back on about 15 minutes later. By that time the blinds had reduced my stack, and they came through again at 800/1600 before I could find anything even resembling a hand. Finally I shoved what was left all in with QJ suited, but it wasn’t good enough. Michele said “about 6” of the boxes are like that, dying in the middle of games. Time to replace the boxes maybe?
All in all, a very good time at Calhoun’s though… we celebrated Chad’s birthday, and it was good to see my BBQ teammate Kao who flew in from Mexico for the weekend.
Since we’re rumored to be getting a Maria’s Cantina Downtown, I’m going to check out the Southaven one for lunch… first though, let me check Foursquare and make sure there’s no douche checked in there… no, it appears to be safe. Will post a report of my experience there at a later time.