{"id":11861,"date":"2012-04-19T17:35:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T22:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=11861"},"modified":"2012-04-19T17:35:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T22:35:27","slug":"thur-update-2-van-halen-and-milkshakes-at-the-fedexforum-25-cent-trolley-rides-dna-happy-hour-patrol-metal-museum-spring-festival-boys-and-girls-club-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/thur-update-2-van-halen-and-milkshakes-at-the-fedexforum-25-cent-trolley-rides-dna-happy-hour-patrol-metal-museum-spring-festival-boys-and-girls-club-shirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Thur update #2: Van Halen and milkshakes at the FedExForum, 25 cent trolley rides, DNA Happy Hour Patrol, Metal Museum spring festival, Boys and Girls Club shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Van Halen is coming to the FedExForum on August 6. This is their first tour with David Lee Roth since 1984. Bob Marley&#8217;s son Ky-Mani Marley will open. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/memphis\/news\/2012\/04\/18\/van-halen-coming-to-memphis.html\">More info on the MBJ&#8217;s site.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In other FedExForum news, I&#8217;ve learned from a trusted source that milkshakes are now available there. Go to the Snax concession stand on the Plaza level.<\/p>\n<p>25 cent MATA trolley and bus rides all day tomorrow, Friday, April 20.<\/p>\n<p>The Downtown Neighborhood Association has its monthly Happy Hour Patrol at the bar at Wang&#8217;s Chinese Bistro on the Main Street Mall. You do not have to be a DNA member to join them for this event.<\/p>\n<p>The Metal Museum will host Spring Arts on the Bluff this Sunday, April 22. Performances with include Bach to Basics (a string quartet), the Mobile Music Machine, &#8220;Lynnie&#8221; the storyteller, and Ballet on Wheels. There will also be hula hoopers, face painting, blacksmith demos, and food. General admission prices apply: $6 adults, $5 seniors, $4 students, and 5 years and under are free. Price includes admission to the museum as well as the festival.<\/p>\n<p>Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis T-shirts are being sold, with an updated version of the organization&#8217;s 1950s logo (back then it was just the Boys Club). $6 of every sale goes to BGCM. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charityhawk.com\/Cause.aspx\/BGCM\">Purchase them here.<\/a> They have women&#8217;s tees, long-sleeve tees, and hoodies too. Too bad they don&#8217;t have a tube top option.<\/p>\n<p>Almost time for the beer dinner! I&#8217;ll try to take some good photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Halen is coming to the FedExForum on August 6. This is their first tour with David Lee Roth since 1984. Bob Marley&#8217;s son Ky-Mani Marley will open. More info on the MBJ&#8217;s site. In other FedExForum news, I&#8217;ve learned from a trusted source that milkshakes are now available there. Go to the Snax concession &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/thur-update-2-van-halen-and-milkshakes-at-the-fedexforum-25-cent-trolley-rides-dna-happy-hour-patrol-metal-museum-spring-festival-boys-and-girls-club-shirts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thur update #2: Van Halen and milkshakes at the FedExForum, 25 cent trolley rides, DNA Happy Hour Patrol, Metal Museum spring festival, Boys and Girls Club shirts&#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\/11861"}],"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=11861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11862,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions\/11862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->