The lunch shuttle to The Front Porch, the pop-up restaurant in Beale Street Landing, is up and running. The shuttle will run continuously between Beale Street Landing and the intersection of Main and Peabody Place from 11 AM to 1:30 PM on weekdays. It’ll keep you comfortable when it’s hot, shelter you from rain, and save you from having to make that long walk up hilly Beale on a full stomach. The shuttle is free to restaurant patrons.
Speaking of The Front Porch, catch The Rusty Pieces there tonight 6:30-8:30.
CycleBar Ghost River happy hour ride happens this evening at the Ghost River taproom. Get a 40 minute bike ride in, the enjoy a Ghost River beer with other riders afterward. Music by DJ Will Coleman. $40 per bike and half the proceeds go to St. Jude.
Classic 1941 movie The Maltese Falcon plays on the big screen at the Orpheum tonight at 7.
Excellent High Ground News article: The history of Downtown’s alleys
You have until 11:59 PM tonight to register for The Ultimate Peabody Rooftop Party Giveaway by the Peabody and Q107.5. Grand Prize winner gets a VIP pass and a plus-one to VIP for the rest of the rooftop party season, and a stay in a Peabody suite on August 17 with breakfast in Capriccio Grill. Two other winners will get a VIP pass and plus-one to the rooftop season finale on August 17 featuring Graceland Ninjaz. Be sure to like Peabody Rooftop Party and Q1075 on Facebook.
Two plans have been proposed to renovate buildings on the Main Street Mall. The owner of 26 S. Main, next door to The Peanut Shop, wants to renovate the three-story building to have ground floor commercial space, two to four apartments above, and a bar/tavern in the basement. Estimated completion goal is February.
Bar/tavern in the basement?! Bardog would no longer be the closest bar to my front door!
There’s also a proposal to renovate the building at the southeast corner at Main and Union, vacant as long as I have lived Downtown, to attract a commercial tenant. Great news. Main and Union is one of Memphis’ premier intersections and having thriving businesses on all four corners would be great for Downtown.
Women in yoga pants at the Memphis Farmers Market are HOT! HOT! HOT! and so is the weather is the theme at this week’s Memphis Farmers Market. (Note: This is my personal theme, not the Farmers Market official theme.) Melons, tomatoes, berries, and other summer produce has arrived. Live music by Ted Horrell 8:30-10, Sydney Carty 10-11, and Merit Koch 11-12:30. The Farmers Market is at the corner of Front and G.E. Patterson every Saturday 7 AM to 1 PM.
Belle: A Southern Bistro will begin offering lunch again soon.
The longtime voice of Kermit the Frog was fired this week.
The ball is really starting to roll in the Trump/Russia scandal. If you want to find out the latest in Trump/Russia months before the mainstream media reports it, follow these five accounts:
- Claude Taylor – @TrueFactsStated
- Louise Mensch – @LouiseMensch
- John Schindler – @20committee
- Kremlin Trolls Counterintelligence – @KremlinTrolls
- Counterchekist – @countercheckist
A few terms you’ll see them use: MSM = mainstream media, IC = intelligence community, GRU = Russian intelligence agency, RICO = racketeering statute that took down John Gotti, FISA = U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, deza = disinformation, kompromat = compromising information that could be used to blackmail an individual
What it’s like to have Trump as your client https://t.co/4UR51vBnDt pic.twitter.com/Z64MrGiGyk
— Mark Berman (@markberman) July 14, 2017
That’s it for now. I’ll hit happy hour at the Silly Goose after work then figure the rest of the evening out. Happy Friday everyone.