Big Thursday at the Redbirds. A special ticket gets you all-you-can-eat beef tacos and fixins’ plus hot dogs. Also it is Ole Miss Night where if you buy a special ticket you get access to a social and the Rebel Road Trip program featuring Head Football Coach Matt Luke, Vice Chancellor for Intercollegiate Athletics Ross Bjork, Chancellor Jeff Vitter, and Head Women’s Basketball Coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin, with the two ticket options also including Club Level seating for the baseball game, a hot dog/soda voucher, and one of two Redbirds hats. Special ticket or not, you get $2 Thirsty Thursday beer throughout the bar, Redbirds in throwback Memphis Chicks gear, and a $5 bluff ticket if you’re a college student.
That’s not all the news from AutoZone Park though. On September 1, soccer legend Tim Howard and the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer will play an exhibition game against the Tulsa Rapids FC of the United Soccer League at 7 PM. Memphis’ USL team and logo will be revealed at that time. Wanna go ahead and purchase your 2019 USL Memphis season tickets? Do it. Do it do it.
There’s a special Sunset Skate Night in Tom Lee Park tomorrow night, Friday, July 20, courtesy of the Memphis River Parks Partnership. The Memphis Education Fund will be there to collect donations to buy school supplies, to be handed out at the next skate night August 3. Food trucks will be on site if you’re hungry.
Downtown favorites Pam and Terry will be playing a couple of songs on Local Memphis Live on ABC 24 tomorrow at 9 AM.
Nashville South rocks the Peabody rooftop party tonight. Hotel guests and ladies free before 7. $10 admission, $20 VIP. Admission gets you a buffet of pigs in blankets and potato chips. VIP gets a second buffet of Chicago, Memphis, and New York style hot dogs.
You just can’t make this up: Axe throwing is coming to Memphis. Civil axe throwing. I’m not allowed to pick who I want to throw an axe at? Well that sucks.
Downtown’s Toyota Centre signed on another lessee, an agricultural tech firm named Indigo AG.
High Ground News is presenting an evening of storytelling about the Uptown district Tuesday, August 2 at 6:30 PM at 61 Keel Avenue. Residents, small business owners, and kids will share their stories of what the Uptown/Pinch neighborhood means to them.
Songwriter Night will be back at South Main Sounds, 550 S. Main, this Friday from 7 to 9. It will be A Fistful of Franks as Frank McLallen Sr. and Frank McLallen Jr. take the stage. Joining them will be Stephen Sciarra and special guest Daniel Brown.
Marilyn Manson is coming to the Cannon Center on October 25. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10 AM.
For my trivia team name last night, I gave my opinion on whether Vladimir Putin would rig the trivia contest:
I learned the meaning of benching as a relationship status thanks to Charles’ questions last night.
I also learned that Hollywood is the third biggest -wood in terms of movie-making. Most people knew the biggest – Bollywood over in India. The second, however, was a total surprise to me. It’s Nollywood, in Nigeria.
From Lifehacker: How to hide your accidental your Instagram “Like” if you’re stalking someone’s page and accidentally fat-finger the heart image underneath one of their photos. LOL. I got an accidental Instagram “Like” in December 2016 about a week after I got the troll. More recently I got an accidental, quickly deleted Facebook friend request from the same person, most likely stalking my friends list to see who I unfriended last week.
Well this is interesting… Special Counsel Mueller submitted his evidence list against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. Guess whose name was all over the list? Tad Devine, who was a chief strategist for a 2016 presidential candidate… BERNIE.
And that’ll do it! Back tomorrow.