{"id":15291,"date":"2014-06-27T12:47:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T17:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=15291"},"modified":"2014-06-27T12:47:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T17:47:40","slug":"fri-update-z-bo-riverside-drive-beale-street-landing-redbirds-st-jude-fundraiser-kooky-canada-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/27\/fri-update-z-bo-riverside-drive-beale-street-landing-redbirds-st-jude-fundraiser-kooky-canada-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fri update: Z-bo, Riverside Drive, Beale Street Landing, Redbirds St. Jude fundraiser, Kooky Canada Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15292\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15292\" style=\"border: 0; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Photo-Jun-26-9-09-50-PM.jpg?resize=246%2C300\" alt=\"Courtney knows what month this is.\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Photo-Jun-26-9-09-50-PM.jpg?resize=246%2C300 246w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Photo-Jun-26-9-09-50-PM.jpg?resize=410%2C500 410w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Photo-Jun-26-9-09-50-PM.jpg?w=1980 1980w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Photo-Jun-26-9-09-50-PM.jpg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 85vw, 246px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtney knows what month this is.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BREAKING NEWS: Zach Randolph will exercise his $16.5 million player option with the Grizzlies for 2014-15 and has signed a 2-year, $20 million extension for 2015-17. Great move for everyone involved. Thank you Grizzlies and thank you Z-bo! (credit to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind the city reducing Riverside Drive to two lanes to allow space for bike and pedestrian use, but with that in place can they PLEASE enforce the &#8220;no trucks on Riverside&#8221; rule? This morning I was five minutes late to work because a dozen other drivers and I were stuck behind a tractor-trailer doing approximately 18 mph from Beale to Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Beale Street Landing had its grand opening at 10 today. There will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/memphisriverfront.com\/index.php\/news\/entry\/beale-street-landing-grand-opening-events\">celebration<\/a> tomorrow with the Bo-Keys, Marcella and her Lovers, and Trio Plus from noon to 7. It&#8217;s pretty cool that the landing has the only Downtown playground for children 10 and younger. It&#8217;s not so cool that the landing took a decade to finish and cost taxpayers $43 million. On Saturday the official opening (with speakers) is from noon to 1, then live music 1 to 7. Maybe I will wander down there after my usual Bardog stop. I will make sure my Bardog stop lasts until at least 1 so I don&#8217;t have to listen to the speakers. Then again, the Blind Bear and the Flying Saucer are on the way to the landing from Bardog (the Saucer isn&#8217;t really, but humor me here) so I might get down there even later than 1.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to the Redbirds game tomorrow, buy your tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphisredbirds.com\">online<\/a>. If you do that and enter code STJUDE at checkout, $5 of the ticket price will be donated to St. Jude. First 500 to purchase this special ticket receive a special commemorative St. Jude baseball T-shirt. First pitch is 6:05 PM (gates open at 5) with fireworks after the game. Round Rock is the opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Kooky Canuck celebrates Canada Day all day Sunday, June 29. They&#8217;ll have $4 Forty Creek, and 2 for 1 Canadian beer bottles. The restaurant has 32 Canadian whiskys. Wear Canadian colors or hockey jerseys. $100 gift certificate to the person dressed the most &#8220;Canadian.&#8221; Special menu:<\/p>\n<p>App&#8217;eh&#8217;tizers: Perogies and Poutine<\/p>\n<p>Entre&#8217;eh&#8217;s: Montreal Steamies, Donair, Maple Sirloin Steak, Canadian Burger, Yonge Street Burger<\/p>\n<p>Desserts: Maple Bread Pudding, Butter Tart and Nanaimo Bars<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now. There may be a second news post after work, so check back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING NEWS: Zach Randolph will exercise his $16.5 million player option with the Grizzlies for 2014-15 and has signed a 2-year, $20 million extension for 2015-17. Great move for everyone involved. Thank you Grizzlies and thank you Z-bo! (credit to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports) I don&#8217;t mind the city reducing Riverside Drive to two &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/27\/fri-update-z-bo-riverside-drive-beale-street-landing-redbirds-st-jude-fundraiser-kooky-canada-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fri update: Z-bo, Riverside Drive, Beale Street Landing, Redbirds St. Jude fundraiser, Kooky Canada Day&#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\/15291"}],"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=15291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15293,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15291\/revisions\/15293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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