Rather than argue whether it’s Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day, why not look to our neighbors to the north for inspiration about what to call today?
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Day!
I recommend celebrating the day at Kooky Canuck, which will have a special plate today including turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, green beans, gravy, and a buttered roll.
If turkey’s not your thing, it’s International Beer and Pizza Day too.
From StyleBlueprint: Meet Kristen & Lindsey Archer of ARCHd, the gift shop which recently opened at 65 Monroe.
Broadway musical Funny Gitl will be at the Orpheum Tuesday through Sunday.
The Mersey Beatles return to Memphis on Thursday for a show at the Halloran Centre. This is the Beatles tribute band that is Liverpool-born, and which held a residency in that city’s Cavern Club, just as the Beatles themselves did from 1961 to 1963. This tour will feature music from 1962 to 1966, so everything from “Love Me Do” to Revolver is fair game.
Eight & Sand Lounge in Central Station Hotel will have a Grizzlies Pre-Season Kickoff tonight from 5 to 11. $8 Grizz Shots and $5 bottles/cans.
The Peabody Hotel will have a job fair on Tuesday, October 17 from 10 AM to 3 PM.
The Fire Museum on Adams Avenue celebrates its 25th birthday on Friday. From 11 AM to 2 PM the museum will have a celebration with cake pops for the first 250 visitors and a fire truck bouncy house. Tickets are $5 per person regardless of age.
Folks from Downtown’s Cossitt Library will be doing Story Time at the Memphis Farmers Market this Saturday. 11 AM is the time. Stories will be family-friendly. Alternatively, you could come get drunk with me at Bardog at 11, where the stories WON’T be family-friendly.
Poker players at Blind Bear get extra chips if they order beers or shots. Note that you only have to ORDER them, not CONSUME them. So if you were to say, “Put a PBR and a Jameson on my tab and send them to Paul sitting at the bar over there,” you could totally do that.
Visible Music College news:
The Drums Division at Visible Music College presents, A Fall Break Shed.This shed session is a free networking opportunity for any creative that wants to connect with other creatives.The event will be hosted in Vining Hall Tuesday, October 10, from 3:30pm-6:30pm. Come ready to jam, create, and rest.
Dollar butter cookies all day long Wednesday at Makeda’s Downtown location, 301 Jefferson. If you have to be at the Darth Vader Building (200 Jefferson) to file for bankruptcy that day, why not get Downtown a little early and walk down the street and get you a cookie?
There’s a cat veterinarian conference at the Renasant Convention Center this coming weekend. The theme this year is an exciting one: The Ins and Outs of Feline Nutrition and Gastroenterology
I remember a Hollywood Squares question from my youth: If you give your cat a sip of beer every day for a year, what’ll happen? Answer: You’ll have a dead cat.
Love classic cars? Then you should check out Edge Motorfest on Saturday.
Monster Market @ The Medicine Factory on Virginia Ave. will host a Wake & Bake Pop-Up on Sunday. No, not THAT kind of wake & bake. Whisks of Doom will hold a breakfast pastry and cold brew coffee sale. 11 AM start time.
YOGA! There will be Spooky Yoga at the haunted Woodruff-Fontaine mansion on Adams Friday morning at 9. $30. All-levels. BYO mat and water bottle. Enjoy a self-guided tour of the museum after yoga. Class will be in the mansion’s garden.
Hennything Is Possible Fest comes to Fourth Bluff this Saturday. This will be a festival and bartending competition celebrating Hennessy.
Let’s have a look at college football games of interest this coming weekend:
Friday the 13th
- Tulane at Memphis, 6:00 PM, ESPN
- Stanford at Colorado, 9:00 PM, ESPN
Saturday the 14th
- 1 Georgia at Vanderbilt, 11:00 AM, CBS
- Indiana at 2 Michigan, 11:00 AM, FOX
- 3 Ohio State at Purdue, 11:00 AM, Peacock
- Syracuse at 4 Florida State, 11:00 AM, ABC
- Arkansas at 11 Alabama, 11:00 AM, ESPN
- 8 Oregon at 7 Washington, 2:30 PM, ABC
- Texas A&M at 19 Tennessee, 2:30 PM, CBS
- Auburn at LSU, 6:00 PM, ESPN
- 10 USC at 21 Notre Dame, 6:30 PM, NBC
- 25 Miami at 12 North Carolina, 6:30 PM, ABC
- 18 UCLA at 15 Oregon State, 7:00 PM, FOX
Whoever wins that Memphis-Tulane game is going to be in great position to contend for the Group of Five berth into a New Year’s Six bowl.
I wonder what the last time was that numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 all played (and not each other) at the 11:00 hour?
The Dallas Cowgirls proved last night that they are PREtenders, not CONtenders. They blow out the bad teams, giving their fans false hope; but then they face a good team and get blown out themselves. I bet Dallas fan Butt Slut #1 cried herself to sleep last night.
That’ll do it for now. Happy Monday or whatever you call today.