{"id":15267,"date":"2014-06-20T13:12:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=15267"},"modified":"2014-06-20T13:12:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:12:31","slug":"fri-update-1-goner-takes-over-handy-park-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-dive-bar-bus-tour-be-a-june-bug-airport-could-get-de-icing-facility-win-a-downtown-getaway-package-hard-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/20\/fri-update-1-goner-takes-over-handy-park-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-dive-bar-bus-tour-be-a-june-bug-airport-could-get-de-icing-facility-win-a-downtown-getaway-package-hard-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Fri update #1: Goner takes over Handy Park, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, dive bar bus tour, Be a June Bug, airport could get de-icing facility, win a Downtown getaway package, Hard Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15268\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15268\" style=\"border: 0; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Photo-Jul-04-6-50-54-PM.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"Independence Day weekend (and the last weekend of Tube Top Month) is only two weeks away. Who remembers this? Best July 4 celebration ever!\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Photo-Jul-04-6-50-54-PM.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Photo-Jul-04-6-50-54-PM.jpg?resize=375%2C500 375w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Photo-Jul-04-6-50-54-PM.jpg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Independence Day weekend (and the last weekend of Tube Top Month) is only two weeks away. Who remembers this? Best July 4 celebration ever!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This week&#8217;s free Friday concert in Handy Park, at Third and Beale, is a Goner Records takeover. NOTS plays at 6, Jack Oblivian &amp; the Sheiks at 7, and Tyler Keith &amp; the Apostles at 8.<\/p>\n<p><i>Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/i>, remastered to the highest definition ever, plays on the big screen at the Orpheum tonight at 7. Come early for activities with the Society for Creative Anachronism.<\/p>\n<p>Backbeat Tours is holding a Memphis Dive Bar Crawl tonight at 8. Participants will travel by bus to visit three of Memphis&#8217; best dive bars. Bar names are kept secret until the night of the crawl. While traveling on the bus between bars, singer\/songwriter Kathryn Brawley will perform original songs. $10 covers bus travel but not alcohol at the three bars. Drinking on the bus is allowed in moderation. Get tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerve.com\/Backbeat\/BarCrawl\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Farmers Market theme tomorrow is &#8220;Be a June Bug,&#8221; a celebration of the bugs that are beneficial to gardens. Master gardeners will be onsite to answer questions you have about plants, gardening, and bugs. Live music by Heather and Sam 7-8:30 AM, Mare Wakefield 8:30-11, Jojo Jeffries 11-12:30. The Streetdog Foundation will be onsite for pet adoptions. Front at G.E. Patterson, 7 AM-1 PM.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis airport could get a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/memphis\/blog\/morning_call\/2014\/06\/memphis-airport-could-get-100m-de-icing-facility.html\">$100 million de-icing facility<\/a>. As my friend Bob who works there would say, Damn!<\/p>\n<p>Follow @ObsidianPR on Twitter. On Monday they will tweet details on how to win a Downtown getaway package.<\/p>\n<p>The new Hard Rock Cafe location at 126 Beale will open to the public on Thursday, July 3.<\/p>\n<p>With most of my Downtown gang away on a canoe trip this weekend, I think I may walk down to Handy Park at 7 to see the Sheiks. Check back this evening, because there will once again be a second daily post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s free Friday concert in Handy Park, at Third and Beale, is a Goner Records takeover. NOTS plays at 6, Jack Oblivian &amp; the Sheiks at 7, and Tyler Keith &amp; the Apostles at 8. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, remastered to the highest definition ever, plays on the big screen at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/20\/fri-update-1-goner-takes-over-handy-park-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-dive-bar-bus-tour-be-a-june-bug-airport-could-get-de-icing-facility-win-a-downtown-getaway-package-hard-rock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fri update #1: Goner takes over Handy Park, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, dive bar bus tour, Be a June Bug, airport could get de-icing facility, win a Downtown getaway package, Hard Rock&#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\/15267"}],"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=15267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15269,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267\/revisions\/15269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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