Paul Ryburn’s Journal

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David the Worm spins at Rehab Disco tonight from 10 until about midnight.

It’s Saturday morning and I just made my Mountain Dew run to Walgreens. As I walked out, I noticed an issue of the Tri-State Defender, with the headline story about a new club to open in the old Red Rooster space at 340 [...]

TV that makes you “Kooky”

Sorry, that may have been the stupidest introductory slogan ever, or close to it, but this is a drunk post. I went down to Kooky Canuck tonight after getting bored at the Saucer. A number of my friends had checked in at Kooky on Foursquare, so I decided to join the party. [...]

All right, home now, more time to post the rest of the news.

City Auto is starting its annual drawing for free crawfish buckets at Rajun Cajun Crawfish Fest. Enter on their site before April 3 and get in the drawing to win one of 50 tokens for a free bucket of crawfish. They’re also giving away [...]

Tons of news coming in today, but not enough time to post… I’m going to just put up the time-sensitive ones right now and hopefully get the rest up tonight.

Pro wrestling manager “The Mouth of the South” Jimmy Hart will be a special guest on the first hour of The Chris Vernon Show, at 3 PM [...]

This Friday will be the first warm-weather South Main Trolley Night of the season, with many galleries and restaurants open from 6 to 9.

This month they have something special: A Taste of South Main! Buy a $10 wristband from any Trolley Tour beverage tent, and you’ll get to sample food at participating restaurants. Restaurants include Harry’s [...]

My day started with a duck fight. We have two mallards, a drake and a hen, who live in our pond at work. Today a second drake tried to make himself at home, and our resident drake was not happy about it at all. I guess that’s why the Peabody only has one male and four [...]

Meghan has trouble deciding what to wear to Jersey Shore parties, because nearly everything in her closet is appropriate attire.

Want to meet the cast of Jersey Shore?

Um, yeah, me neither. But if you know anyone who does, tell them they should travel to Starkville Saturday. A local bar is having a grand re-opening celebration. They’re [...]

Lots of restaurant news today. Let’s get to it…

Felicia Suzanne’s turns 9 years old this week, and they’re having a week-long celebration. Complete details can be found on the restaurant’s new website, which launched today. There will be a wine tasting, birthday cake, a cookbook signing, live music on the patio, a prix fixe birthday menu [...]

March has flown by, it seems, and we’re now only 5 days away from the first Spring beer festival Downtown! The 2nd Annual River City Brewers Festival will happen in Handy Park at Third and Beale this Saturday, March 26.

There are two sessions, so you can pick which you want to go to: afternoon (12-4) or [...]