The Experience Hendrix Tour will be coming to the Orpheum Thursday, March 17, 2017. A diverse array of talented musicians will come together to celebrate the music of Jimi Hendrix. Expect renditions of Hendrix favorites including “Purple Hzae” and “Little Wing.” Tickets go on sale Friday, October 7. Visit the tour website to learn more.
Scandals and Scoundrels, a notorious tour of Elmwood Cemetery, will happen Saturday from 2 to 3:30 PM. Among the cemetery’s 75,000 residents are madams, corrupt politicians, all kinds of sinners… and not all the stories have happy endings. Learn about some of the people who brought notoriety to the Bluff City. Tickets are $15 and this is an all-walking tour. They are requesting that the tour be grown-ups only.
Saturday after the Razorbacks game in Little Rock, head coach Bret Bielema and his wife Jen flew home with offensive lineman Frank Ragnow. Ragnow’s father died shortly after the game. Bielema is a class act through and through. “I tell [parents] all the time that I will look after your son, and I mean it.” Well done, Coach B, Hog Nation is proud of you. The Razorbacks host #1 Alabama Saturday at 6 PM, with a nationally televised game on ESPN. You know Max’s Sports Bar will be packed for that one!
This isn’t Downtown news, but it’s about someone many Downtowners know so I’m including it in the blog today. The Broad Avenue Arts District made an excellent hire for the new executive director, talented artist Katie McWeeney Powell. When Katie bartended in the early days of Brass Door, I spent quite a bit of time talking to her about her art. Congratulations, Katie.
J.R. Willett’s Banjos & Bonfires returns to Felicia Suzanne’s on Thursday, November 3. There will be beer, bourbon and bites, with the beer coming from Wiseacre and the bourbon from Willett Distillery. $50 to attend.
The Daily News has an article on Artspace Lofts for which construction is now under way. The lofts will provide affordable living space for working artists, with prices ranging from $550 to $850 a month, well below the South Main market average rent.
I know I have a few readers up in Chicago, and this one’s for you: Wiseacre beer, brewed right here in Memphis, is coming to the Windy City. To celebrate, there will be a West Loop pub crawl next Monday, October 10. Tickets are $20.
Catherine and Mary’s has announced a happy hour of 4-6 PM on weekdays with drink specials and snacks. In addition, when it is a Memphis Grizzlies or Memphis Tigers game day, Wiseacre beers will be on special for $4 during happy hour.
Beer coaster etiquette
In Sunday’s post, I took a step back in time to the era of our grandmothers, when nothing was more important than good manners. For those who own PBR koozies, I demonstrated correct and incorrect use. Today I am back to address a similar issue of etiquette.
Yesterday at Bardog, Melissa brought me my mug of PBR and placed this coaster in front of me. Is it appropriate to put a delicious PBR on a coaster advertising such a terrible beer?
The answer is YES. It is appropriate.
By covering up the Coors Light logo with a considerably better beer – the best beer of all, in fact – you make the place classier. Bartenders and bar owners will appreciate you projecting their establishment in such a positive light. Putting a PBR on a Coors Light coaster (or Bud Light, Miller Lite, Michelob, etc.) is good manners.
That’s it for now, time to head in to work. Possibly another post at lunchtime.