Tue update

Frankie Hollie and the Noise will headline this Thursday’s Peabody rooftop party with special guest We the Kings. In addition to the entertainment will be a casting call for the Memphis Flyer’s Fall Fashion issue from 6 to 8 PM. $15 cover, with the first 200 ladies free. There’s also a VIP pass for $150 that gets you into all this season’s rooftop parties and into a special VIP area. Admission includes a buffet of chicken taquitos and tortilla chips & dip. If you’re in VIP, there will be a taco bar, black beans and rice, chicken enchilada dip, and cinnamon churros. Traditional margaritas will be on special, and other drink specials will include Firefly Blackberry Lemonade and cinnamon apple margaritas. Doors open at 6, with live music starting at 7.

Yo Gotti plays Mud Island River Park Sunday, June 19 at 7:30 PM.

Bleu has extended its social hour to 11 AM through 6 PM weekdays. Drop in out of the Bleu for $5 house wines and well drinks, as well as rotating drink specials.

Did you miss retired Orpheum CEO Pat Halloran’s talk at the recent Downtown Neighborhood Association meeting? Read a recap here.

Million Dollar Quartet will be filming Friday on Nettleton between Front Street and Tennessee Street (including Wagner) from noon to 2 AM.

A special at Bardog today is the Kentucky open-faced Hot Brown sandwich. These are seriously good. I had them a few times when I taught week-long corporate training classes in Lexington.

From the Flyer: Aaron Winters turns Miss Cordelia’s meat counter into a craft butcher shop

For those of you who have been asking me when Tacos & Tunes would kick off on Felicia Suzanne’s patio for the season, I now have an answer: Thursday, May 12.

That’s all I got for now. Back later today possibly.