For those of you in Memphis for BBQ Fest, and who don’t know what to get into after the festival closes for the night, here are some suggestions.\u00a0 These will show you the REAL Memphis:<\/p>\n
In the news:\u00a0 44 remaining condos at the River Tower (formerly the Rivermark Apts.) at 655 Riverside will go on auction June 21.<\/a> At least 10 will be sold to the highest bidder, regardless of price.\u00a0 This could be a good chance to take advantage of the saturated Downtown condo market and get a unit at a steal.\u00a0 They’ll surely go for below market and the owners will get immediate equity.<\/p>\n Also in the news:\u00a0 Only 2 teams competed in the BBQ Fest Ms. Piggie contest this year.<\/a> The third-place $500 prize went unclaimed.\u00a0 Blast!\u00a0 Someone from our team could’ve gone up there in a pig nose and sang whatever and taken $500 for the team just for showing up.\u00a0 I hate missing out on free money.<\/p>\n Also in the news:\u00a0 It looks like the City Council will reject King Willie’s plan to close several branch libraries<\/a>, but they aren’t interested in saving the deteriorating Cossitt branch Downtown at Front and Monroe.<\/p>\n Also in the news:\u00a0 Benihana in East Memphis has filed for permits to rebuild<\/a>.\u00a0 The old Benihana burned down in February, and there was speculation that it wouldn’t be back.<\/p>\n Also in the news:\u00a0 Eyewitness News reports that convenience stores are robbery hotspots in Memphis.<\/a> I want to thank Eyewitness News for examining crime reports indepth and uncovering this important fact.\u00a0 I don’t think any of us were aware that robberies occurred frequently at convenience stores.\u00a0 Glad Eyewitness News did the dirty work.\u00a0 I hear they’re planning a followup report saying that convenience stores are also among the places in town most likely to carry Slurpees, Icees, and similar frozen drinks.<\/p>\n And that’s the news.\u00a0 Time to get my drink on at BBQ Fest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For those of you in Memphis for BBQ Fest, and who don’t know what to get into after the festival closes for the night, here are some suggestions.\u00a0 These will show you the REAL Memphis: The Dempseys at Blues City Cafe.\u00a0 Most high-energy rockabilly band you’ll ever see.\u00a0 By far my choice for Memphis’ best … Continue reading “A few suggestions for post-BBQ Fest music for out-of-towners. Plus: In the 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\/2041"}],"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=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}