Trolley Night returns to South Main Friday, June 25. On the last Friday of every month, the shops and galleries in the South Main Arts District stay open until 9 PM or later. Many shops put out beverages and hors d’ oeuvres for their customers, and some offer special discounts. It’s an opportunity to come mingle with your neighbors in a way the health department hasn’t allowed us to do for a year and four months.
The ribbon-cutting for Wiseacre 2 Downtown, twice postponed by the stupid pandemic restrictions, will happen Thursday, June 17 at 4 PM. There will be a DJ spinning Memphis music on vinyl, an ice cream social featuring Makeda’s/Butterific cookies, and rare beers including 2019 Astronaut Status Barrel Aged Imperial Stout. They’re working with the City of Memphis to get the mobile vaccine unit out, and if they do they’ll have a beer-and-a-shot special.
Momma’s at the corner of Crump and Kentucky is temporarily closing. Traffic on Crump has slowed to a near-standstill, due to increased traffic exiting off I-55 as I-40 bridge repairs are made. They’re going to use the time to complete renovations: a completely new parking lot, an extended patio deck, and a sign.
Momma’s will, however, be open this weekend through Sunday. Turnstyles provides the live music tonight at 7.
Yesterday I caught up with a buddy of mine who works on Presidents Island, and he said that getting from there to Downtown is quite the challenge these days given the heavy I-55 traffic. His advice to anyone following the same route is to take South Parkway to Mississippi Blvd. then turn north.
The ultimate Independence Day weekend kickoff, TRAPLIVE, comes to Carolina Watershed Saturday, July 2. Lil’ Wyte and opener Lord T & Eloise will perform, along with the TRAPLIVE band. Tickets
The remains of racist icon Nathan Bedford Forrest have been completely removed from Health Sciences Park, it was announced yesterday. Sorry, NBF, you’re not invited to Juneteenth next weekend.
Today is World Gin Day.
It was my pleasure watching the Arkansas Razorbacks whoop some NC State ass last night, winning game 1 of their NCAA baseball Super Regional 21-2. Game 2 is on ESPN2 at 2 PM Central. Hmmm I’m gonna have to figure out where to watch that, since the TV I normally watch at 2 on a Saturday will likely be on something else.
There’s Barre with Peggy Jean Craig at the Mud Island portion of Wolf River Greenway this morning at 10.
Yesterday at work, I pulled up Weatherbug on my computer and noticed the dew point was 80. That is absolutely disgusting. Fortunately the MemphisWeather.net forecast has low humidity for Tuesday and Wednesday and lows in the mid 60s Thursday morning. At least relief is in sight.
Field trip: Sometime between now and July 31, head out to Memphis Botanic Garden to check out Folk Art from the collection of Downtown’s very own Judy Peiser.
Programming note: Beginning next week, I’m going to have a little more flexibility in my schedule. Because of that, some days I’m going to do morning posts and some days I’m going to return to posting in the lunchtime hour. So if you check this blog before work and don’t see a post, try again around noon or 1.
That’s it for now. Definitely skipping the farmers market today to minimize the time I spend outside in this humidity. Bardog at 11, somewhere to watch the Arkansas game at 2. Back tomorrow with more news.