{"id":19378,"date":"2017-03-10T06:46:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T12:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=19378"},"modified":"2017-03-10T06:46:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T12:46:12","slug":"friday-update-maxs-opening-early-for-tigers-watch-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/10\/friday-update-maxs-opening-early-for-tigers-watch-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update: Max&#8217;s opening early for Tigers watch party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Tigers play UCF in the AAC conference tourney today at noon, and Max&#8217;s Sports Bar will open at noon for a Tigers Watch Party. As an added bonus, Georgia plays Kentucky at the same time, so you can root for an upset and an early trip home for Coach Cal.<\/p>\n<p>I have to work today so I won&#8217;t be at Max&#8217;s for the Tigers. However, my Hogs step into SEC tournament play tonight at 8, facing Ole Miss. That might be worth a walk down to the south side.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason to go to South Main tonight is the kickoff of the Big River Block Party this weekend, featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/244817765968551\/?notif_t=plan_user_invited&amp;notif_id=1489081755553603\">The Accidentals<\/a> at the 5 Spot this evening. After that Jennifer Westwood and the Handsome Devils play The Dirty Crow Inn tonight at 9.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orpheum-memphis.com\/events\/detail\/garrisonkeillor\">Garrison Keillor<\/a>\u00a0takes his radio show A Prarie Home Companion on the road and to the Orpheum tonight. 7 PM showtime. Tickets $52.50-$152.50.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintage901.com\/\">Vintage 901<\/a> opening toast and Perfect Pairings is tonight at the Halloran Centre. Tickets $225.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a march of unity and resistance in support of Standing Rock Downtown tonight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Friday Night Downtown Memphis, Beale Street Landing<br \/>\nCALLING ALL WATER PROTECTORS<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StandWithStandingRock?src=hash\">#StandWithStandingRock<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0aWsCBUP1p\">pic.twitter.com\/0aWsCBUP1p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OccupyMemphis (@OccupyMemphis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OccupyMemphis\/status\/839876425675071490\">March 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I do plan on being at the Beale Street St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade tomorrow, if the weather is at all agreeable. However, I have decided it&#8217;s probably best to leave my little green-haired troll at home. It&#8217;s a shame because at this point, people are asking about Perjorie T. Roll nearly every day, but if I accidentally drop her, some kid will think she was thrown from a float and run off with her.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, even though the official parade is not until tomorrow, they are going to go ahead with The Raising of the Goat in front of Silky&#8217;s tonight at 5 (time listed; actual time probably more like 6).<\/p>\n<p>The city of Memphis is looking to hire a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governmentjobs.com\/careers\/memphistn\/jobs\/1670025\/business-development-lending-coordinator-1-opening\">business development lending coordinator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The city is also searching for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/money\/business\/development\/2017\/03\/09\/memphis-officials-have-made-no-decision-on-whether-to-support-a-new-convention-center-hotel-back-a-possible-sheraton-expansion-or-both\/98954458\/\">Downtown hotel consultant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Poplar from Front to Second will be closed today through Sunday, so that a new chiller can be installed at a building at Poplar and Main.<\/p>\n<p>Off to work, possibly back midday with more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Tigers play UCF in the AAC conference tourney today at noon, and Max&#8217;s Sports Bar will open at noon for a Tigers Watch Party. As an added bonus, Georgia plays Kentucky at the same time, so you can root for an upset and an early trip home for Coach Cal. I have to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/10\/friday-update-maxs-opening-early-for-tigers-watch-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday update: Max&#8217;s opening early for Tigers watch party&#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\/19378"}],"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=19378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19379,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19378\/revisions\/19379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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