Saturday update

The Brass Door will open early today for the Rugby World Cup. Matches to be shown:

  • Ireland vs. Romania – 8:30 AM
  • Australia vs. Georgia – 11 AM
  • England vs. Argentina – 2 PM

Soul & Spirits will have 12 oz. cans of their beer available at Kroger starting next week. Of course, you can also get the cans at their 845 N. Main taproom.

Memphis River Parks Partnership has sued Memphis in May for $1.4 million in damages to Tom Lee Park that MRPP claims happened at Music Fest and BBQ Fest ’23.

MPD investigators believe Thursday’s shooting at the Lil Baby concert inside FedExForum was premeditated.

Jaren Jackson Jr. won’t come home with a FIBA World Cup gold medal. Team USA lost to Germany yesterday 113-111. Team USA will play Canada for the bronze medal at 3:45 AM Sunday.

Mental Floss has offbeat attractions in every state. For Tennessee, it’s a salt & pepper shaker museum.

MLGW restored power to Downtown after a substation outage knocked out electricity south of Monroe for about five hours.

Memphis 901 FC hosts Monterey Bay FC tonight at 7 at AutoZone Park.

Expect extremely heavy traffic Downtown once the Southern Heritage Classic lets out about 9 PM.

Cutting this post short because I have to go in and work the ticket window at 9. Back tomorrow with more news.