Thursday update

Last night at the Blind Bear. Maddie decided I needed a leaf in my hair to complement my Hawaiian shirt.

City Tasting Box has a Father’s Day sale going on right now – use promo code DAD15 when you check out for 15% off your order and $5 shipping. What to order dear old Dad? Owner Cristina (also the proprietor of Feast & Graze) recommends the Memphis Travel box, which includes

  • The Wing Guru’s Memphis Guru Gold Sauce
  • Corky’s BBQ Original Sauce
  • Rendezvous World Famous BBQ Seasoning
  • Huey’s Burger Seasoning
  • Shotwell Candy Co. Original Salted Caramels
  • Makeda’s World Famous Butter Cookies
  • My Cup of Tea Memphis-Inspired Tea Blends

Eddie B’s Teachers Only Comedy Tour comes to the Orpheum Saturday. The “voice of teachers everywhere” will take the stage at 8 PM and tickets are $25-$55.

Next door at the Halloran Centre, Juneteenth the Musical Stage Play will have 2 PM and 7 PM performances Saturday. Tickets are $27.50-$40.

Women of Soul: Black Music Month Edition will happen at the Halloran Centre Sunday at 7 PM. Tickets are $49.

Memphis 901 FC has an away match at Louisville City FC at 7 PM Saturday. You can watch on WMC Bounce or on ESPN+.

DJ Epic is the featured performer at tonight’s Peabody rooftop party. 6-10 PM, $15 general admission, $30 VIP.

Both Twitter and the world of professional wrestling suffered a tremendous loss yesterday as The Iron Sheik passed away at age 81. Iron Sheik, real name Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, is best known for becoming the only Iranian WWF (now WWE) world champion in history. He won the championship from Bob Backlund in December 1983 and lost it the following month to Hulk Hogan. After retiring, he became a social media legend for his all-caps rants on Twitter and Facebook.

REST IN PEACE SHEIKIE BABY YOU THE REAL LEGEND YOU NOT THE JABRONI LIKE THE HULK HOGAN.

New Wing Order has announced that they will have a special item available Saturday at the Ghost River taproom on Beale Street: a beer-braised brisket sandwich. “A toasted hoagie bun is filled to the brim with slow roasted beef brisket and topped with pickled red onions. Our house made Alabama White BBQ sauce is served on the side.”  The brisket sandwich will be part of Ghost River’s One Year on Beale celebration.

I got an insider tip yesterday that Ferraro’s, the pizza place on Jackson just east of Main in the Pinch District, has 16 oz. cans of PBR for $2. With tax they are $2.19.

From Food & Wine: Fireball is getting fancy with barrel-aged cinnamon whiskey

Big River Market, the grocery store at 516 Tennessee Street, is for sale. The owner who opened the market is a musician, and now that the pandemic is over he wants to get back to his true calling full-time.

Today is Name Your Poison Day. I’ll be calling a PBR by name later today.

It’s also Jelly-Filled Donut Day.  I wish we had a Shipley’s or a Gibson’s Downtown.

Both the I-40 and I-55 bridges were closed for parts of the day yesterday, reigniting calls for a third bridge connecting vehicular traffic between Memphis and Arkansas.

Might want to grab an umbrella, because there is a 30% chance of showers in Memphis this afternoon now that a cold front has moved through. High 87, low 64.

Holiday Inn Downtown seeks a sales manager.

New York City has sued Kia and Hyundai, claiming their cars are so easy to steal that they’ve become a public nuisance.

Reviews are in for the Vision Pro, Apple’s new $3500 VR headset.

Counting down the minutes until 10 AM when the Cossitt Library opens – according to Memphis Public Libraries’ website, a bestseller I’ve been wanting to read is amazingly on the shelf at the Cossitt, not checked out. Not gonna name the book, because I don’t want anyone to beat me to it, but here are a few hints:

  • The book is not about a tire
  • The author is not American, but lives in America
  • A lot of people don’t like the author’s wife

Back tomorrow with more news.