It’s Thursday rooftop party night. At the Peabody, Seeing Red will headline tonight. $10 cover includes your first drink, ladies free before 7, 6-11 PM.<\/p>\n
Hmmm… I see ’80s hair band Aquanet is the headliner next Thursday. That may very well be my first Peabody rooftop party of the year.<\/p>\n
Over at the Madison, “The Boogie Man” Don McMinn will perform tonight, with gritty singing and wicked guitar licks. 7-11 PM, cash bar and small plates available.<\/p>\n
If you use Foursquare<\/a>, today would be a good day to update your app. They’ve released version 5.0. It takes a little getting used to, but I like it better. The timeline of your friends’ checkins is easier to follow and more photo-centric. Also, you can “Like” your friends’ checkins now. The “Explore” feature tells you which of your friends are nearby. Mashable has more info on Foursquare’s makeover here<\/a>.<\/p>\n One thing that hasn’t changed is that users can add tips to venues. I need to pull up The Peabody and leave a tip: “Wear a tube top to the Thursday rooftop parties.”<\/p>\n Tip I learned from one of my readers this morning: If your company blocks Facebook, you may still be able to access it by going in through a publicly-shared Facebook photo album. Feel free to use my BBQ Fest album<\/a> for this if you want. I don’t understand why companies block Facebook. People will just surf it from their phones anyway.<\/p>\n The Flaming Lips will perform at Handy Park Wednesday, June 27 at 5:45 PM. They are attempting to break the record for most concerts in a 24-hour period. After they get done in Memphis, they will make several stops in Mississippi, then Baton Rouge and New Orleans.<\/p>\n GiveCamp Memphis needs developers, designers, DBAs, and content writers to volunteer their time for the upcoming June 22-24 camp. This camp will allow you to use your talents to help local nonprofits reach their full potential. You can sign up to volunteer here<\/a>. Besides helping to make the community better, this would look great in the “Interests\/Activities” section of a resume.<\/p>\n There will be a Mo’s Bows trunk show this Saturday at Shelton Clothiers from 2-4 PM. Come meet 10-year-old entrepreneur Mo and buy some of his bowties.<\/p>\n IMPORTANT NEWS FOR DOWNTOWNERS: Yesterday I attended trivia at the Blind Bear, and between rounds Charles announced what is happening at the Bear the rest of the week. Something new has been added to the calendar: $3 Fireball shots after 6 PM on Sundays.<\/p>\n Our trivia team grew to seven players last night. We ended up losing to Team Nuh-Uh after disastrous second and third rounds, but it was still good to have everyone together. I got on the Bear and Charles for not starting on time. It was 10:35 before he wrapped up. They promised they will start on time next week at 8 if there are teams waiting to play.<\/p>\n Time for lunch. I found a new Mexican restaurant I want to try. If more news comes in I’ll do another post after work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s Thursday rooftop party night. At the Peabody, Seeing Red will headline tonight. $10 cover includes your first drink, ladies free before 7, 6-11 PM. Hmmm… I see ’80s hair band Aquanet is the headliner next Thursday. That may very well be my first Peabody rooftop party of the year. Over at the Madison, “The … Continue reading “Thur update: Rooftop parties, Foursquare update, Facebook tip, Flaming Lips @ Handy Park, GiveCamp needs techie volunteers, Mo’s Bows show, important Fireball news, and more”<\/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\/12271"}],"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=12271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12272,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12271\/revisions\/12272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}