Wednesday update

The Orpheum announced its 2022-2023 Broadway season yesterday.

If you’re a current season ticket holder, it’s time to renew. Want to become a season ticket holder? March 29 is your day for first choice of seats.

Lucky Seven Brass Band will play a Crunk Brunch at Wiseacre Downtown this Sunday, February 27. Little Bettie, the pizza kitchen inside Wiseacre, will be serving up a breakfast pizza. Show your Memphis Tigers game ticket for 10% off your beer order. If you don’t plan to attend the game in person, you can stay and watch it on Wiseacre’s big screens.

Seen on ESPN yesterday: The New Orleans Pelicans will be able to offer Zion Williamson a 5-year, $181 million contract extension during the offseason. That’s noteworthy because Zion Williamson and Ja Morant are in the same draft class – so the Grizzlies should be able to offer Ja the same amount. $36 mil a year? Sounds all right.

The Pelicans are gonna be in a tough situation. Zion is overweight and injury-prone. He has never lived up to his potential. There are signs he doesn’t want to be in New Orleans. If they sign him to a max deal, it could be an even worse contract than the one Chandler Parsons had with Memphis. But if they don’t re-sign him, another team could nab a diamond in the rough.

On the other hand, the Grizzlies’ contract negotiation in the offseason should go something like this:

“Max OK with you, Ja?”

“Sure.”

The Calvary Waffle Shop returns March 3. The waffle shop is a pop-up lunch cafe held at Calvary Episcopal Church during Lent. It’s done in conjunction with the church’s Lenten Preaching Series, and favorites like fish pudding, corned beef and cabbage, and Boston cream pie will be on the menu. Lunch will be served 11:00-1:30 Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, and they’ll serve dinner 5:15-6:15 Wednesdays. The waffle shop will return to in-person dining this year, now that the health department’s stupid COVID restrictions are long gone.

Potato milk is a thing now. Yuck. I’m not a Vladimir Putin fan but I have to admit, Russians make better beverages out of potatoes than Americans do.

Action News 5 has a copy of the 22-page FDA report on the inspection of Family Dollar’s West Memphis warehouse. Among the findings:

  • Rodent droppings too numerous to count on the shipping dock where food was waiting to be picked up
  • Employee breakroom closed October 2021 due to odor
  • Rat carcasses
  • Gnawings of spilled containers of mixed nuts and spilled product
  • Rodent droppings and a mouse carcass (so I guess I was wrong when I speculated no mice) on a pallet of Hungry Jack cheesy scalloped potatoes
  • Rodent gnawings of pouches of Knorr Chicken Flavor Rice & Pasta Blend
  • Urine stains found next to another Knorr product with spillage

… and that’s just the first 4 pages of the 22-page report. Click the link above if you want to read the whole thing. Oh my, the rats got into the Vagisil too!

Blues City Kayaks will host a Sunset/Full Worm Moonrise walk across Big River Crossing on St. Patrick’s Day. Free to participate.

The Mississippi Blues Child, Mr. Sipp, plays B.B. King’s tonight at 7:00. $10 cover charge at the door.

Crawfish will be back at the Flying Fish beginning this Friday. The ones at Max’s Saturday boils are better, but if you can’t make it to those, the Fish is an option.

New at the Broom Closet: 1-inch miniature gemstone penises. They’re $6 and come in a variety of gemstones.

117 Prime is fire-sale-ing some of their wines to make room for new and exciting inventory. You might find one of your favorite wines at a discount if you stop in.

Morning Brew has a Ukraine explainer so you can understand the conflict between that nation and Russia. Keep track of Russian military movements in real time with this map.

That’s it for today. Back tomorrow with more news.