A rare screening of a silent film will happen tonight at The Orpheum. 1928’s The Cameraman<\/i>, starring Buster Keaton, will be shown at 7:00. However, guests are advised to show up at 6:30 for “Beyond the Screen with Indie Memphis,” a discussion of this film and the silent film era. During the film there will be live musical accompaniment by nationally known pianist Tony Thomas.<\/p>\n
The Orpheum’s annual dinner on stage<\/a> is this Saturday night. Guests will enjoy a cocktail reception, a tour of the theatre and backstage, and a brief film in the auditorium about the Orpheum’s history. That will be followed by a 3-course dinner with wine, and then a Q&A session. Pat Halloran will share stories and history with guests. Tickets are $75 per person ($50 if you’re a current season ticket holder), or $550 for a table of 8. The event is limited to 90 guests. Call the box office at 901-525-3000 to purchase tickets.<\/p>\n Tug’s restaurant on Mud Island is holding a fundraiser for the Hospitality HUB. From 4 to 9 PM Wednesday, June 19, 10% of all food and beverage sales will be donated to the organization. The HUB helps people exit homelessness by giving them a hand up rather than a handout, offering many services they need to find their way back into mainstream life. It’s a worthy organization to support.<\/p>\n Last night at the Peabody rooftop party, Seeing Red played a song about marriage. As the band played, a man got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend. She said “yes.” Congratulations to the happy couple.<\/p>\n There are a lot of giveaways coming up during the current Redbirds homestand, which runs through next Thursday. First 2000 fans in the gate for tonight’s game receive a Redbirds gym bag. There’s good reason to come early, with a block party on the plaza from 5 to 7 with live music and $2 Coors Light. Game time is 7:05. Ladies, that gym bag would be a great way to carry tube tops around so you can have them to put on at any time.<\/p>\n It’s National Donut Day and I hear that Gibson is giving away donuts. Free donuts? Wonder if the Nuh-Uh Girl will show up.<\/p>\n New T-shirt available on Roadkill T-shirts: There’s no award for stupid, so stop competing.<\/a><\/p>\n That’ll wrap it up for now. No set plans for anytime this weekend, but I’ll be out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A rare screening of a silent film will happen tonight at The Orpheum. 1928’s The Cameraman, starring Buster Keaton, will be shown at 7:00. However, guests are advised to show up at 6:30 for “Beyond the Screen with Indie Memphis,” a discussion of this film and the silent film era. During the film there will … Continue reading “Fri update: Orpheum silent film and dinner on stage, Tug’s\/Hospitality HUB, proposal on the rooftop, Redbirds giveaway, 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\/14024"}],"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=14024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14025,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14024\/revisions\/14025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}