If you have feedback about the recent switch of Riverside Drive from 4 lanes for vehicles to 2, don’t forget that there’s a community meeting about the street tonight. It’s at Beale Street Landing, 251 S. Riverside Drive, at 6:00 this evening.<\/p>\n
Important bacon news: There will be a bacon lovers’ Dishcrawl<\/a> at three restaurants in Memphis on August 13.<\/p>\n The Grizzlies have announced an official Memphis Grizzlies Tennessee license plate<\/a>. They need 1000 pre-sale orders for the plates to be produced, and once they have the 1000 it will take 4-5 months to produce the plates.<\/p>\n Speaking of the Grizzlies, they’ve dropped the “interim” from Chris Wallace’s general manager title, and signed him to a long-term extension. A good move.<\/p>\n Local cat lady @stephMEM tweeted some exciting news yesterday. A cat circus<\/a> is coming to Memphis this fall. It will be in the Evergreen Theatre in Midtown in November. Cats will push shopping carts, ride skateboards, and perform other tricks. Also a band made up of cats will perform.<\/p>\n Also in November, Terri Lee Freeman will take over as president of the National Civil Rights Museum<\/a>. It sounds like they made an excellent hire, someone who will work to increase national and international awareness of the museum.<\/p>\n Social networks screwing up their apps, part 1: Facebook is moving all messaging to its Messenger app.<\/a> If you try to send messages via Facebook’s mobile app, you’ll be told to go download Messenger. Not a big fan of this decision.<\/p>\n Nor am I a fan of something Foursquare did. It is now forcing users to switch to Swarm to check in. That I don’t mind, but Foursquare went and screwed up the best thing it had going: mayorships. There is no more “mayor” concept, in that the person who checked in the most at a place over the past 60 days became mayor. Instead you get a crown sticker for having checked in the most days of any of your friends. So my 2+ year reigns as mayor of Flying Saucer and Blind Bear have come to an end. BOOOOOOO!!!!<\/p>\n The Midtown Aldo’s Pizza Pies that is opening soon will have a rooftop patio<\/a>.<\/p>\n That’ll do it for now. Back this evening or tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you have feedback about the recent switch of Riverside Drive from 4 lanes for vehicles to 2, don’t forget that there’s a community meeting about the street tonight. It’s at Beale Street Landing, 251 S. Riverside Drive, at 6:00 this evening. Important bacon news: There will be a bacon lovers’ Dishcrawl at three restaurants … Continue reading “Tue update: Riverside Drive meeting, important bacon news, Grizzlies license plate, cat circus, new NCRM leader, bad decisions by social networks, Aldo’s”<\/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\/15402"}],"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=15402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15403,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402\/revisions\/15403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}