Thursday update

Havana Mix is presenting the first annual Cigar Love Affair this Saturday from 6 to 9. It will feature cigar and wine pairings featuring cigars from Cigar Aficionado’s Top 25 list (1 flight with $50 purchase, complimentary flight for additional guest). Chocolates by Phillip Ashley, sultry jazz, exciting raffles. Couples and singles are welcome.

Our Memphis Tigers are fierce. They are aggressive. They are killers. One Memphis tiger showed all of those traits after being transferred to the Sacramento Zoo. He was introduced to another tiger and promptly killed it. Perhaps the Tigers basketball team can channel the spirit of this killer tiger to win remaining games and go far in the AAC tournament.

I saw this for a brief moment on Facebook last night: Andy Griffith gives Cam Newton advice on winning and losing

Check out this Bleacher Report article on the Grizzlies’ Vince Carter. Kobe may be ready to hang it up, but Carter feels he still has some more big games left in him.

Gus’s is now serving chicken in Kansas City.

Police are cracking down on speeding on the interstates. It’s a directive by the new Interim Director of MPD. I personally have seen police cars all over I-55 on my way to and from Horn Lake. Fox 13 reporters drove the posted speed limits on the interstates, and very few cars did not pass them.

The sexual assault allegations and gender discrimination lawsuit against the University of Tennessee has made the news across the pond. The Daily Mail has a report which is worth a read because it has some additional details. Way to go, UT, you’re an international embarrassment now.

Valentine’s Day gift idea: Chocolate covered butter cookies from Makeda’s Cookies. 901-745-2667 to order.

Holly has a post about her recent visit to the Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art, an often-overlooked Downtown treasure.

That’s it for this post, possibly a second one later.