Lots of news about The Edge District to lead off this morning’s post.
This Friday, October 8, there will be a free concert at Edge Plaza (Monroe & Marshall) from noon to 1 PM featuring Iris Orchestra. Food trucks Mr. Frazier’s Fish Fry and Stick’em will be on hand, so come hungry. Also, if you want to take a tour of the Edge Motor Museum down the street, tickets will be discounted to $5.
This year’s Edge Motorfest will be this Saturday, October 9 from 9 AM to 3 PM. The festival is free to attend, but if you want to enter a car in the car show it’s $20. Awards will be handed out in over 20 categories including street rods, motorcycles, muscle cars, tuners, and modifieds. There will be goodie bags for those who enter as well as door prizes.
Next Tuesday, October 12 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM, the Edge Neighborhood Association will partner with Streetdog Foundation for Yappy Hour at the Edge Triangle dog park at the corner of Orleans and Monroe Extended. Bring your dogs for a costume contest, refreshment, and giveaways. See you next Tuesday on The Edge!
Details are yet to come, but Tuesday, November 9 will be the Memphis Medical Center District’s annual Taste of the District.
The Medical Center District recently interviewed Sean Robinson of Cozy Corner BBQ. Sean is the grandson of the original owners who opened the business in 1977.
NOTE: All of the information above came from the latest issue of The Vitals, the Memphis Medical District Collaborative’s monthly email. Sign up to receive The Vitals on the MMDC website.
British Invasion cover band Jeffrey and the Pacemakers will play Ghost River’s Beale Street location Sunday, October 17 from 4 to 7 PM. If you’ve near heard these guys, they are excellent and you should check them out. They play the hits of the Kinks, the Animals, Herman’s Hermits, and other British Invasion bands including the two most well-known of all of them, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
When I went to Rhodes College, my parking decal was a point of pride – it let everyone know I was associated with that fine institution. But now, according to this DM article, Rhodes students are being advised to remove their parking decals from their cars. It seems that the decals are sending the message to criminals that there is nice stuff in the house the car is parked at. Prayers for all who knew Drew Rainier, the Rhodes student killed in a home invasion over the weekend.
Michael Donahue reports for the Memphis Flyer that The Rambler, a boutique apartment hotel at the corner of Main and Huling, is now open for business. An “apartment hotel” is a hotel whose rooms are designed like apartments, which makes them good for longer stays – for example, for someone who’s in town on business for six weeks.
Facebook and Instagram were down for more than 6 hours yesterday. The outage is said to have happened during a routine update to Facebook’s Border Gateway Protocol records. Glad to hear it wasn’t a hack or a denial of service attack.
Windows 11 launches today.
Today is National Get Funky Day.
Tonight is opening night for Come From Away, the first Broadway show at the Orpheum in more than a year and a half.
Memphis Health Center at 277 S. Fourth is holding a job fair today.
That’s the news for this morning. Disappointed that WWE didn’t use the storyline idea I pitched in yesterday’s post. Back tomorrow with more news.