Back at work after a couple of birthday days off, putting together a dining guide for an upcoming tournament my company is holding in Rhode Island. One of the nearby restaurants has a build-your-own mac & cheese bar. Yum.<\/p>\n
Oh wow. There’s a gourmet grilled cheese store<\/a> too. My friend Katie Mac would be in heaven at that place.<\/p>\n This is mainly an event for kids, but even as an adult I think it sounds pretty cool: Discover the Ice Age<\/a> is coming to the Cook Convention Center this weekend. You can meet mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats and other megafauna that ruled the world during the Ice Age.<\/p>\n The Foo Fighters have announced a concert series for next summer and fall. They will come to the FedExForum October 7, 2015.<\/p>\n Big positive news for Memphis: Readers of the USA Today selected Memphis as the number-one NBA destination<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Flyer has a Q&A with Billy Orgel<\/a>, new owner of the Tennessee Brewery, about what he plans to do with his new piece of property.<\/p>\n From the MBJ: Live music venue The New Daisy<\/a> has changed ownership.<\/p>\n The Bar-B-Q Shop is the winner<\/a> of the MBJ’s 64-restaurant BBQ brackets.<\/p>\n The Methodist Healthcare Foundation is holding a cancer center fundraiser luncheon<\/a> with Rob Lowe tomorrow. I wonder if he’ll bring Creepy Rob Lowe and Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe with him? Watch out for guys with binoculars if you take a swim at the Y tomorrow.<\/p>\n GoTigersGo.com has fan information for Saturday’s Memphis Tigers football game<\/a> vs. South Florida. MemphisWeather.net says that we’ll be mostly rain-free for the game with temps in the 60s.<\/p>\n That’s it for this post. I’ll be at my usual Thursday spots after work this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back at work after a couple of birthday days off, putting together a dining guide for an upcoming tournament my company is holding in Rhode Island. One of the nearby restaurants has a build-your-own mac & cheese bar. Yum. Oh wow. There’s a gourmet grilled cheese store too. My friend Katie Mac would be in … Continue reading “Discover the Ice Age this weekend, and other Thursday news”<\/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\/15736"}],"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=15736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15737,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions\/15737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}