Did your high school teacher ruin Shakespeare for you with book reports and tests? Here’s a way to make The Bard fun again: Memphis Made Brewing Co. is hosting Shakesbeer 2 in its taproom tomorrow evening from 7 to 10. It’s a fundraiser for Threepenny Theater Company and will feature performances by company members, as well as special appearances by Gil Worth and Alan Long of oamaudio.com, who will record and special edition of The Game Show Podcast. Your $15 admission fee gets you not only the performances, but three hours of pulls from the Memphis Made tap handles. The taproom is at 768 S. Cooper. More info about this event on the Memphis Made blog and Facebook.
The Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team will be on national TV tomorrow. They host Oklahoma State at the FedExForum at 5 PM, with the game broadcast on ESPN2.
There’s a Choose901 po-up shop at 50 Peabody Place today until 7 PM. Grizzlies in-arena voice Rick Trotter will be available to sign autographs at the pop-up shop until 5:30. From WREG: Pop-up shops driving business Downtown
Our Lights Shine Bright is the theme of the Memphis Farmers Market Winter Market tomorrow, the final market of the Winter Market season. From 10 AM to noon there will be a double book signing: Justin Fox Burks and Amy Lawrence will sign their book The Southern Vegetarian: 100 Down-Home Recipes for the Modern Table, and Jennifer Chandler will sign her book The Southern Pantry Cookbook: 105 Recipes Already Hiding in Your Kitchen. From 9:30 to 11 there will be a workshop where you can make homemade ornaments for your Christmas tree, and Santa makes a special appearance at 10. Music by Opera Memphis from 10 to 10:30, Germantown High School from their musical “Big Fish” 10:30 to 11, and Adam Levin 11 to 12:30. Market runs from 9 AM to 1 PM at the pavilion at Front and G.E. Patterson. After tomorrow there will be no market until April 5, opening date of the 2015 season.
A resolution goes before the City Council next week that would create a Beale Street Tourism Development Authority that would have a nine-member board and that would oversee the Beale Street Entertainment District. The district is currently managed by the Downtown Memphis Commission, having taken it over from Performa on January 1 of this year.
Ole Miss fans: You’re going to have Tim Tebow commentating on your bowl game.
FiveThirtyEight has coverage of the Beer Mile World Championships.
The Orpheum is giving away a Lion King fun pack.
That’s it for this post. I’ve got nothing definite planned for tonight but I have a fun weekend ahead including a Flying Saucer plate party (not mine) and a poker league final table. Time to hit Publish and wrap up the work week.