{"id":24254,"date":"2020-10-16T07:59:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T12:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24254"},"modified":"2020-10-16T07:59:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T12:59:46","slug":"friday-update-151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/16\/friday-update-151\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to make a reminder to my readers that is very important in the age of COVID-19: If you have reservations at a restaurant and can&#8217;t make it, please call and let the restaurant know so they can re-book the space. Jennifer Biggs of The Daily Memphian reports that this is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/foodnews-and-features\/article\/17512\/estaurateurs-covid-outdoor-erling-jenson-james-taras\">a big problem<\/a> during the pandemic. With many restaurants forced to operate at half capacity or less, keeping tables 6 feet apart, a no-show on a reservation hurts twice as much as it normally would.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of American Athletic Conference games on ESPN tonight: #17 SMU at Tulane at 5:00 and independent powerhouse #14 BYU at Houston at 8:30.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/women-of-soul-karen-brown-dmonet\">Women of Soul<\/a>, a concert featuring Karen Brown and D&#8217;Monet, happens at the Orpheum at 7 tomorrow tonight.<\/p>\n<p>However, tomorrow morning&#8217;s performance of Baby Shark Live scheduled for the Orpheum has been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>The Downtown Neighborhood Association will hold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/386816119363811\/\">its first in-person monthly meeting<\/a> since February on Tuesday, October 27 at Loflin Yard. DNA members will be given priority over non-members with space limited to 50 because of COVID regulations. There will be temperature checks and contact tracing at the door.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Business Journal asks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/memphis\/news\/2020\/10\/15\/update-on-mud-island-aquarium.html\">whatever happened to the proposed Mud Island aquarium?<\/a> The city first proposed the idea in 2018 but has been unable to find an investor.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if anyone from the MBJ is reading, you might want to do a Google search on that article&#8217;s headline. My daily Google Alerts indicate there are some shady websites scraping your content.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic led to a <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/pandemic-pushes-memphis-in-may-to-1-7m-financial-loss-this-year\/\">$1.7 million loss<\/a> for Memphis in May this year. That&#8217;s nearly three times the largest loss of any previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The Shelby County Health Department has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmcactionnews5.com\/2020\/10\/15\/schd-revises-safe-halloween-guidelines\/\">revised<\/a> its recommendations for Halloween. While trick-or-treating is still not recommended, there are best practices you can follow. You can give out individually bagged candy so kids are not reaching into a common bowl. You can give candy to kids outside, wear a mask, and wash your hands frequently.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like the popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/6th-annual-memphis-monster-mash-tickets-124872409739\">Monster Mash party<\/a> at the Mallory-Neely House in Victorian Village is still on. The party is outdoors and is limited to 100 guests, and therefore is considered a &#8220;small gathering&#8221; (less than 200) by the Health Department.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1024011151448442\/\">Marcella and Her Lovers<\/a> perform at Health Sciences Park today 11 AM to 1 PM. A food truck will be at the park. Masks are encouraged and sanitation supplies will be available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/641048083275011\/\">Alexis Taylor<\/a> plays The Vault tonight at 8. Prior to that she&#8217;ll be on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1180552525679321\/\">South Main Stream Live<\/a> at 6:30.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. I&#8217;m going to early vote after I get off work this afternoon. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.buymeacoffee.com\/1.0.0\/button.prod.min.js\" data-name=\"bmc-button\" data-slug=\"paulryburn\" data-color=\"#FF813F\" data-emoji=\"\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-text=\"Buy me a coffee\" data-outline-color=\"#000\" data-font-color=\"#fff\" data-coffee-color=\"#fd0\" ><\/script><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to make a reminder to my readers that is very important in the age of COVID-19: If you have reservations at a restaurant and can&#8217;t make it, please call and let the restaurant know so they can re-book the space. Jennifer Biggs of The Daily Memphian reports that this is a big problem &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/16\/friday-update-151\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday update&#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\/24254"}],"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=24254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24255,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24254\/revisions\/24255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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