OK, back. Saturday update

My PBR koozie finally died. The koozie, brought back by a friend from a Colorado trip, was a brown paper bag, the perfect size to hold a tallboy, with a thin insulated inner lining and the PBR logo on the front. I expected it would last about a month, but it made it 57 days before finally becoming unable to hold another beer at D-RANKS with B-RAD (appropriate, since that’s where I met the friend who gave it to me) this past Sunday. I thought it was the coolest koozie ever.

Until I saw this tweet.

In other beer news, local brewery Wiseacre is holding a 10 day sale on cold weather items like hoodies and socks.

Chili lovers: Come to The Exceptional Foundation of West Tennessee’s Chili Cook-off in Overton Square on November 5. Be sure to stop by the Blind Bear team and get some of Colin’s award-winning Prohibition Chili in you.

Topics for the October 19 presidential debate have been announced. “Fitness to be president” is on there. My, my, that will be interesting. It almost sounds like the Commission on Presidential Debates is setting Trump up for a meltdown.

Petra Cafe is said to be eyeing a Downtown location for sometime in 2017.

The Psychedelic Furs play the New Daisy tonight at 7:30.

Chalking in Memphis: On October 28, the day prior to Race for the Cure, you can grab some chalk on Beale Street and write the name of a woman you know who survived breast cancer, or a loved one that you lost to the disease.

Thanks, Obama: The president issued an executive order allowing U.S. citizens to bring Cuban cigars and rum back from the island.

Plan on being in the kitchen this weekend? Food & Wine has 9 killer pumpkin desserts you can make. Don’t forget that the Memphis Farmers Market is open til 1 today if you need a pumpkin or two!

Mollie Fontaine’s has announced their Halloween Party and it’s actually on Halloween, Monday, October 31. Hosted by Doug Osborn, with DJs A.D. and Jordan Rogers. $10 cover.

High Cotton is hosting Pints for Pits tonight in support of this often-misunderstood dog breed.

The Commercial Appeal has an excellent article on the Urban Bicycle Food Ministry. The ministry distributes hundreds of nutritious burritos weekly to those who are hungry. The great thing about this organization, as rider Frank Rouse puts it, is “we do not judge. I’ll put a burrito in someone’s hand if they have a can of beer in the other.”

The Memphis Smoke cigar festival happens today at 1 at the Tinder Box, 346 S. Main. Over 20 confirmed vendors and more still being added.

Rice Drewry and Friends play the Center for Southern Folklore tonight at 8. $10 cover.

The Comedy Get Down Tour comes to FedExForum tonight. Performers include Cedric “The Entertainer,” Eddie Griffin. D.L. Hughley, George Lopez and Charlie Murphy.

Off to the Farmers Market for my weekly visit. After that I’m going to spread a little sunshine! Back tomorrow with more news.