VERY IMPORTANT art show on October 28 (Tuesday update #2)

A very important art show will take place Friday, October 28 from 5 to 10 PM at 500 S. Second Street. The 2016 PBR Art Showcase will feature Pabst Blue Ribbon-inspired artworks by ten artists. PBR will be served to those over 21. Learn more about these exhibits at the PBR Art website.

High school seniors trying to decide what to do with their future after graduation have a new option to consider: Blue Path. This is a program announced by Mayor Strickland today, a partnership between Memphis Police, TN promise, and Southwest Tennessee Community College. Beginning next June, the city will offer graduating seniors full-time employment with MPD as a police service technician, and a path to an associate’s degree in criminal justice from Southwest Tennessee Community College. Once they get the degree and turn 21, they will be eligible to become a Memphis police officer after completing sworn officer training. It’s a path that will attract bright young talent to MPD, will open career and education opportunities to young people, and will develop well-rounded and community-focused police officers for Memphis. FANTASTIC IDEA Mayor Strickland and everyone who worked to make this program happen!

Street musicians, you can take part in the busking challenge on Main Street two days this fall. The event is an open call for local musicians and bands to perform on the Main Street Mall Friday, October 28 and Friday, November 4. The audience will vote on the winners. Those who perform both days will increase their chances to win. There will be three prizes: First place will get a 5-hour recording session at Ardent Studios, second gets $200 in gift cards to Downtown businesses, third gets $100 in gift cards.

The Union Mission has started their Thanksgiving donation campaign. $1.67 can give a homeless person a meal and access to services that could be his or her beginning down a better path in life.

Twitter had two suitors to buy the company, Disney and Salesforce, but both backed out because they were concerned about the meanness and bullying often seen on the network, in conflict with how the suitors saw their corporate images. Don’tcha just hate those crazy trolls?

The MBJ has a photo gallery of the renovation of Clayborn Temple, the civil-rights landmark at Pontotoc and Hernando. The plan is to open the temple to the public for a season of events, then come back and finish renovations next year.

An appeals court has upheld a decision that MPD cannot conduct sweeps to get people of Beale Street except in matters of public safety.

There’s been a meme going around in the form of a political poster. Walken-Busey 2016: Because if we’re going to elect batshit crazy, let’s at least make it highly entertaining. Well, guess what: Gary Busey has been accused of groping women on the set of Celebrity Apprentice several seasons ago. He allegedly touched a production employee’s breasts and then held her hand to his crotch. Employees of the show debated whether to lobby for Busey’s removal from the show. The complaint made it all the way to the top, where Mr. Trump laughed it off with Busey as boys being boys.

And then there’s this:

Cheeto Voldemort!

See the evolution of naughty Halloween costumes over the past 100 years.

The Redbirds are offering some deep discounts on Redbirds merchandise at AutoZone Park’s plaza through Thursday.

Memphis Comic Expo happens Saturday and Sunday at the Cook Convention Center.