The Africa in April festival returns to Robert Church Park this weekend. The park is on Beale, just east of Fourth. Live entertainment, vendors, and a diversity parade will be among the festival events. PRO TIP: Uncle Lou’s Fried Chicken usually has a food truck at this festival. It’s a rare opportunity for Downtowners to get some Sweet Spicy Love without driving to Whitehaven.<\/p>\n
Update on the Carnaval de Panama party to be thrown at The Warehouse on Friday night, April 25: They will have beer. In the past, South Main Dirty Dozen party organizers were unable to provide beer for guests due to the venues in which the parties were thrown. I’m very happy with this development because I much prefer to drink beer rather than liquor. A minimum $10 donation gets you in the door, and goes to support two fine charities, Hospitality HUB and Urban Bike Ministry.<\/p>\n
Memphis Que<\/a> blogger, and my former Computer Literacy student from my University of Memphis days, Craig Meek is writing a book<\/a>. He will explore the history of Memphis as told through BBQ. The book will be called Memphis Barbecue: A Succulent History of Smoke, Sauce and Soul<\/i>\u00a0and will be out June 24. Interestingly enough, he didn’t even intend to write a book when he started the blog. The History Press found Craig’s blog, which is excellent by the way, and contacted him and asked him if he’d be interested in being an author.<\/p>\n The Green Beetle will host a gourmet dinner on Sunday, April 27 benefitting Wounded Warriors. Cocktail hour and silent auction at 6 PM, dinner at 7 PM. Here’s the menu, by guest chef Stephen Hassinger:<\/p>\n – Tomato watermelon salad with country ham Email HollyeT@dishcrawl.com to purchase tickets. Tickets are $40\/person or $75\/couple.<\/p>\n Dogfish Head beers will return to Memphis next week, which happens to be Memphis Beer Week. Here’s a look at the Dogfish Head selection that the Flying Saucer will offer Tuesday, April 22:<\/p>\n Downtown’s second annual bocce ball smackdown happens tonight at 5:30 at Main and Talbot.<\/p>\n Got enough news to merit a second post today. Check back around 5:30. After that I’ll hit the Silly Goose for a PBR or two. If the weather is nice I might walk down and check out some bocce after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Grizzlies beat Dallas in overtime last night, earning the 7th seed in the West and a playoff series vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder. Here’s the schedule for the first four games. Game 1 (road): 8:30 PM Saturday April 19, ESPN Game 2 (road): 7:00 PM Monday April 21, TNT Game 3 (home): 7:00 PM … Continue reading “Thur update: NBA playoffs, Peabody rooftop party, Brewfest, Africa in April, beer at Carnaval de Panama, BBQ blogger writing a book, Green Beetle gourmet dinner, Dogfish Head beers to return”<\/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\/14995"}],"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=14995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15008,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14995\/revisions\/15008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n– Tri tip steak with stuffed baked potato galette and homemade worcester sauce served mid rare
\n– Homemade bread pudding<\/p>\n![\"dogfishhead\"](\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/dogfishhead.jpg?resize=500%2C123\")
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