The M80s provide the live music at this week’s Peabody rooftop party tonight. $10 admission includes a menu of baked tilapia with mint yogurt sauce, corn & zucchini salad (available 7-8 PM). If you’re in VIP there’s a second buffet of glazed chicken wings and spinach & artichoke dip (available 7-9:30). Memphis Flyer Fall Fashion casting call from 6-8 PM. Doors open at 6, ladies free until 7.
There’s no Summer Movie Series movie at the Orpheum tonight, but Saturday Wendy Williams, host of the Wendy Williams Show, will bring her style of comedy to Memphis.
The Blind Bear is having an August 1917 event all weekend long, from 7 PM Friday until close Sunday. What’s significant about August 1917? That’s the month the prohibition amendment was introduced in Congress, so you better party like you don’t have much time left. There will be many specials, including $6 Moscow Mules, Champagne Cocktails, Whisper Sisters, Dark & Stormy’s, Kiss of Lavender’s, John Daly’s & Bootlegger’s Mule’s, Jäger BBQ Bologna Sandwich with Sesame Slaw & Pepper Jack Mac & Cheese. The Blue Chips (rock & blues) will play Friday night, and The William Charles Collective (rock & Southern rock) Saturday night. Hungover Like a Bear Brunch Saturday with my favorite pair of librarian glasses and Sunday with B-RAD. Texas Hold’em poker Sunday at 6:30.
Food truck alert: Reverb Coffee will launch a truck in October.
Last night members of two BBQ teams, Mike from Squeal Street and team vice-president Clay and workhorse “Mr. Load-in” from the 2015 award-winning Moody Ques were at the Silly Goose discussing Burger Fest, Bloody Marys, and upcoming regional cookouts. I learned of a type of Bloody Mary I had not heard of before: a clear one. You see, tomato juice is red, but the actual water inside of tomatoes is clear. So chefs started making Bloody Marys with water from fresh tomatoes from the farm. Sounds delicious; as you all know, I am a huge fan of fresh produce, so I will have to buy some tomatoes at the Memphis Farmers Market and give this recipe a try. The downside to this drink is that you can only make the cocktail when tomatoes are in season.
Mike from Squeal Street mentioned that the newest chef revolution up north is the comeback of the steak of the ’70s, the T-bone. I remember when I was little I thought a T-bone from Bonanza was one of the finest meals around (and I had not yet learned that “well done” is not the proper way to order a steak). Or, if I wanted to be really high-falutin’ back in those days, a T-bone from Steak and Ale. Clay commented that you can’t get T-bones at most groceries around here. Fresh Market has them, he said, but otherwise you have to go to a meat market like Charlie’s. Many people do not know that the Memphis Farmers Market is more than fresh produce; there are several meat vendors, most concentrated on the side aisle that leads from the main pavilion to the Front Street parking lot. I wonder if any of those vendors sell T-bones? Now I have two things to check when I go Saturday: T-bones and vegan cheese.
(I am doing such a good job as the Foursquare mayor of the Farmers Market. This is like the 12964th time I have mentioned it since becoming mayor 
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Almost time to head to work. Back at lunch or after work with another post possibly. On call for work after-hours so I am not sure whether I will get out tonight.