{"id":10599,"date":"2011-09-08T12:56:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T17:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=10599"},"modified":"2011-09-08T12:56:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T17:56:49","slug":"thur-update-downtown-museum-day-live-music-at-felicias-new-event-space-walgreensfoursquare-gop-debate-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/thur-update-downtown-museum-day-live-music-at-felicias-new-event-space-walgreensfoursquare-gop-debate-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Thur update: Downtown Museum Day, live music at Felicia&#8217;s, new event space, Walgreens\/Foursquare, GOP debate recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I lamented on Facebook that I&#8217;ve been a Downtowner for almost 10 years, yet have never taken a tour of Sun Studio. That&#8217;s pretty unacceptable, to be that out of touch with my city&#8217;s heritage. Saturday would be a good day to do something about that: It will be Downtown Museum Day, when many of Downtown&#8217;s museums will offer admission for half-off or free. In the case of Sun Studio, there will be free admission and tours all day. Kerry has a complete list of Downtown Museum Day discounts <a href=\"http:\/\/ilovememphisblog.com\/2011\/08\/downtown-museum-day-2011-guide\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Live Music in the Courtyard starts back up at Felicia Suzanne&#8217;s tonight. Blues and jazz singer Deborah Swiney will perform from 8 to 10 PM. Cocktail and snack specials will be available.<\/p>\n<p>The old National Bank of Commerce building, the 6-story building on Monroe next to One Commerce Square, will be available for event rental soon. Pinnacle Airlines is currently using the building as a staging area for its move, but won&#8217;t need it after November 1. The space will be renamed The Columns at One Commerce Square, and REG will be renting it out for weddings, corporate functions and charity fundraisers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2011\/sep\/08\/venue-on-the-menu\/\">More details in this CA article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you visit the Downtown Walgreens this week &#8211; or any Walgreens really &#8211; and you&#8217;re a Foursquare user, be sure to check in. For each checkin this week, Walgreens will donate a flu shot to someone in need.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed the GOP debate last night, Time has an excellent recap <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.time.com\/2011\/09\/08\/what-you-missed-while-not-watching-last-nights-reagan-library-gop-debate\/\">here<\/a>. A tweet from @BorowitzReport today said it all: &#8220;In the 1980s Ronald Reagan emptied the mental hospitals, and last night we saw the results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Time to grab some BBQ nachos then back to work&#8230; I&#8217;ll be out Downtown later tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I lamented on Facebook that I&#8217;ve been a Downtowner for almost 10 years, yet have never taken a tour of Sun Studio. That&#8217;s pretty unacceptable, to be that out of touch with my city&#8217;s heritage. Saturday would be a good day to do something about that: It will be Downtown Museum Day, when many &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/thur-update-downtown-museum-day-live-music-at-felicias-new-event-space-walgreensfoursquare-gop-debate-recap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thur update: Downtown Museum Day, live music at Felicia&#8217;s, new event space, Walgreens\/Foursquare, GOP debate recap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10600,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions\/10600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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