I didn’t attend the public forum on the possible re-opening of the Main Street Mall to vehicles last night, but friends of mine did.\u00a0 They told me the response from citizens and business owners was very heavily AGAINST re-opening the street to traffic.\u00a0\u00a0 If the CCC moves forward with this idea, they’re very much going to be working against public sentiment.\u00a0 Hopefully their plan is dead and buried as of last night.<\/p>\n
Dr. Booze has a new post<\/a> about a site called Local Wine Events.\u00a0 You select your city and the search engine tells you what upcoming wine, beer, and spirits events are in your area.\u00a0 If you own a restaurant or bar, or if you are throwing an event, you can log in and add your own listings.\u00a0 Currently only one event comes back as a search result but several more should… I know there are restaurants throwing wine dinners in the next couple of months, and someone needs to put Art on Tap on there.<\/p>\n In the news:\u00a0 Rachael Ray is coming to town today<\/a> to visit a gorilla from the Memphis Zoo who is a big fan of hers.\u00a0 The gorilla has a TV in his cage and loves to watch when she’s on, especially when she’s cooking.\u00a0 Her visit will be filmed and will air in September.<\/p>\n Also in the news… MPD’s eye in the sky<\/a> spotted a vehicle break-in at Main and Peabody Place at 2:30 AM yesterday.\u00a0 They caught the suspects about a block away.\u00a0 Glad to see that program is working… the bad guys don’t have free run of the neighborhood anymore.\u00a0 They never know who’s watching.\u00a0 Also, the bum patrol told me that one of the area’s top parking-meter scammers has been cited for panhandling for the third time in two weeks.\u00a0 That means he has three court dates.\u00a0 If he misses one of them a warrant will be issued and he’ll be hauled off to jail.\u00a0 The bum patrol has been catching him in the act so often, he’s going to have to spend some of his panhandling money on a PDA to keep up with his court appearances.<\/p>\n There’s a Facebook group called “Trader Joe’s – Please come to Memphis!”\u00a0 It was my pleasure to join that one.\u00a0 I lived in San Diego for 6 months and shopped at Trader Joe’s… it’s a health food store, but with better products and more reasonable prices than Wild Oats.\u00a0 If we got a Trader Joe’s, my health guru AL might be more successful altering my eating habits.<\/p>\n Congrats to the Rapscallions, who took first place in trivia last night, bringing the gift certificate total for our next party to $360.\u00a0 That sounds like a lot but we have close to 30 people who have participated in the past month or so.\u00a0 Third-round bonus question that gave us the win:\u00a0 Name the three most populous islands – islands, not island nations – in the world.\u00a0 The answers were Java (where Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, is located), Great Britain, and Honshu (Japan’s largest island).<\/p>\n My Internet connection is down.\u00a0 Gotta call Comcast at lunchtime and find out what’s wrong.\u00a0 Thanks to my neighbor “linksys” for supplying the bandwidth that made this post possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I didn’t attend the public forum on the possible re-opening of the Main Street Mall to vehicles last night, but friends of mine did.\u00a0 They told me the response from citizens and business owners was very heavily AGAINST re-opening the street to traffic.\u00a0\u00a0 If the CCC moves forward with this idea, they’re very much going … Continue reading “Wed. morning update: Main Street, local wine events, Rachael Ray in town, Trader Joe’s, and more”<\/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\/2347"}],"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=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}