Last night I decided to partake of the “steak” part of Steak, Whiskey & Poker Night, the new Thursday night special at the Blind Bear. For $19.99 you get a steak, a baked potato with butter, and a salad. The cut of steak changes weekly. Yesterday it was a Creekstone 6 oz. sirloin.
Whoever thought up Steak, Whiskey & Poker Night deserves a Nobel Prize. This is one of the best ideas ever. The steak was perfectly cooked to my specification of medium rare. You have the option of adding cheese, sour cream, and chives to your potato for 99 cents, but I like to taste the butter on my potato so I declined.
Speaking of the Bear, the photos from their February 12 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre party are now online.
The NBA All-Star weekend kicks off tonight with the Rising Stars tournament. 4 teams will compete in games that will not have a game clock. The semifinals will be a race to be the first team to score 50, and the finals will be first team to score 25. Grizzlies star Desmond Bane will play on Team Isiah, coached by Isiah Thomas.
Collage Dance Collective presents RISE at the Cannon Center this weekend. The performance will be the collective’s return to the stage after 2 years and will be in conjunction with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. All audience members, including children, must wear medical-grade face masks. Cloth masks must be accepted. Audience members must show proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID test, and those 17 and up must show photo ID.
Speaking of masks, the CDC is set to relax its guidance on mask-wearing in the coming weeks.
Alton Brown Live: Beyond the Eats comes to the Orpheum Wednesday, March 16. Comedy, dangerous science, cooking demos.
Twin Soul plays the Tin Roof tonight at 6:30.
Jimbo Mathus and Them Durty Crooks play South Main Sounds tomorrow at 7.
Developer Henry Turley is unhappy that Uptown residents are being temporarily relocated while renovations take place to their public housing units. Turley says there is nothing wrong with the houses, which are only about 20 years old.
The 2022 Memphis Tigers football schedule has been released. Nonconference opponents include Mississippi State (the season opener on September 3), Arkansas State, North Texas, and North Alabama.
It’s the final weekend of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Random fact I learned from the Morning Brew newsletter: Olympic gold medals are at least 92.5% silver.
Today is National Drink Wine Day.
That’s it. Back tomorrow.