Insomnia Tuesday update

I woke up about 4 AM and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I might as well get the news out now instead of waiting for my lunch break.

I know a lot of restaurant and bar employees read this blog, so here’s some news for you. You can get a free flu shot to help keep you healthy during the cold winter months. Here’s how to get it.

If you’re in the restaurant industry and looking to change jobs, here’s a tweet for you:

In case you have never been there, Trolley Stop Market is in the 700 block of Madison, in The Edge neighborhood.

Would you and your group like to march in the Beale Street holiday parade, on Saturday, December 5 at 4 PM? Apply here.

Paul Morris who runs DMC is leaving this year to work at his family business, and the South Main Association is giving him an exit interview at their monthly meeting Tuesday, November 10. The meeting will be held at 5 Spot’s Hole in the Wall in the Earnestine & Hazel’s building on G.E. Patterson. Free for SMA members, $10 for non-members. Cash bar, complimentary appetizers by 5 Spot. 6 PM start time.

Paul reports that a last minute item has been added to the City Council agenda for today, to discuss extending the time parking meters charge for parking until midnight.

On ioby, you can help raise money for a Little Free Library in the Nettleton Community Orchard. The library would not only loan books, but would be modified so that those who live in the neighborhood can share seeds with one another. Donations will also go toward two benches, a hose cabinet, hardscaping (gravel area) and an additional pet-waste station. The Nettleton Community Orchard is a community fruit tree orchard in the South Main district established by neighbors to serve the community.

This sounds like a cool event: We Gotta Get Out of this Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War at STAX Museum on November 18. For those unfamiliar with the area, STAX Museum is not walkable from Downtown, so you’d need to drive there or take a taxi or Lyft or Uber.

Before you click this next link, take a guess how much a musician in the Memphis Symphony Orchestra makes a year. Go ahead, just write down a number on a piece of paper.

The contract with Memphis Symphony Orchestra musicians is being restructured to include “community engagement.” That will allow the musicians to receive a generous raise, all the way up to $22,813 a year. Daaaamn. Didn’t realize that guy standing in the food stamp line played the cello.

There was more of a reason former president Jimmy Carter was in town than just to build a house. He was here to announce that the 33rd Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project for Habitat for Humanity will take place in Memphis’ Uptown neighborhood August 21-17, 2016.

Glad to hear this: The Hickman Building at Madison and Fourth has been purchased. The plan is to redevelop it as a mixed-use building, with retail on the ground floor and any mix of office, retail, and residential on the floors above. It makes me very, very happy to see development along this stretch of Madison. As you know, I live near Madison and Main, and attended a party at Madison and Danny Thomas this weekend. Because I’m pretty damn fearless, I walked there, but I have to admit I was a little nervous on the stretch from Third to Danny Thomas where there are a lot of vacant buildings. Madison is one of the gateways into Downtown and we don’t need people seeing blight as they make their way into our neighborhood.

All right. Time to take a shower and head to work. Possibly another post later today.