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<\/a><\/p>\nThey’ve converted the former stage area into a lounge area. The three benches that were previously there are gone, and in its place are comfy couches, tables, and chairs. I really like it. For years servers complained about getting that section, because it was the most unappealing part of the entire bar. Not so anymore.<\/p>\n
So, what happened to those benches? They’ve been moved to the little nook behind the pool table.<\/p>\n
I hung out at the Saucer until 3, then migrated to the Blind Bear. From there the group decided to hit Bardog for some of those $2 Coronas. Unfortunately they had run out, with another shipment due Tuesday. Not that we minded much though – it’s Bardog, never a bad place to spend a Sunday. Our friend Buddha put Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” on the jukebox and we rocked out.<\/p>\n After Bardog, I went back to the Blind Bear, where frequent blog reader Kelly was hanging out. Now, I’ve given Kelly a lot of grief on this blog lately, but I have to say that I am very proud of some of the decisions she made yesterday. For one, let’s look at what she was wearing:<\/p>\n She’d been out with her family at Texas de Brazil and Beale Street earlier in the day. She was too hot in the clothes she was wearing, so she bought a tube top dress and changed into it.<\/p>\n Speaking of that trip to Texas de Brazil… she was there for brunch. That meant that they had lobster bisque and breakfast meats on the salad bar. She got a bowl of the lobster bisque and used it as a dipping sauce for her bacon and other meats. Where did she learn to do that? Right here.<\/p>\n In other news around Downtown, prizes were awarded to three Unveil Downtown artists<\/a>. Elisha Gold (work on display at Lansky 126), Rebekah Laurenzi (work on display at Art on a Hot Tin Roof), and Jimpsie Ayres (work on display at Thai Bistro) were the winners. You can see their work through June 20.<\/p>\n It’s been announced that Tuesday trivia with Kevin Cerrito at Ferraro’s will soon have an earlier end time. That’s very good news. Having played on a team for five years, I can tell you that professionals who work 8-5 jobs really appreciate it when trivia wraps up at 10 or earlier. Don’t forget that there’s $1 PBR and Rolling Rock at Kevin’s trivia. It starts at 8 PM on Tuesdays.<\/p>\n Paulette’s is having a wine dinner tomorrow night, Tuesday, June 5. It will feature Argentinian wines that scored in Wine Spectator’s 89-92 range. Details here<\/a>. The River Inn is also offering special room rates in conjunction with the dinner, should you choose to stay the night.<\/p>\n All right, time for a quick bite then back to work on my current PHP\/MySQL project. Plans for tonight: Pint Nite at the Saucer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got up too late for brunch at the Majestic yesterday, so I started the day at noon at the Flying Saucer. When I got there, I discovered something new. My home away from home has a new living room. They’ve converted the former stage area into a lounge area. The three benches that were … Continue reading “Mon update: My home has a new living room, Unveil Downtown winners, trivia at Ferraro’s, wine dinner at Paulette’s”<\/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\/12237"}],"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=12237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12242,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12237\/revisions\/12242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n