{"id":24539,"date":"2021-01-28T07:23:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T13:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24539"},"modified":"2021-01-28T07:23:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T13:23:33","slug":"thursday-update-178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/28\/thursday-update-178\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More info about The Inkwell, the cocktail lounge set to open on Madison Ave. out in The Edge later this year:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#x1f5e3;Aye! I\u2019m hyped to announce that I will be opening a new cocktail bar called Inkwell. Opening summer of this year. Took a ton of work just to get to this point. And will take tons more moving forward. Go ahead and follow Inkwell Bar on IG to get updates. Let&#8217;s get it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MbCVcIYVcI\">pic.twitter.com\/MbCVcIYVcI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Colar (@bencolar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bencolar\/status\/1354186097169997825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Memphian reports there are plans to use an old warehouse building as <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/neighborhoodsdowntown\/article\/19583\/century-old-warehouse-may-provide-enclosed-parking\">parking<\/a> for The Snuff District that is under development along the river in Uptown. Maybe one day there will be a river walk from Bass Pro north to The Snuff District then on to Grind City Brewing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/410143416745151\">Bluff City Born<\/a>, a showcase of original music by local artists, comes to the Tin Roof on Beale Wednesday evening, February 3.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Biggs and Chris Herrington recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/foodreviews\/article\/19605\/chris-herrington-jennifer-biggs-soup-eat-in-take-home\">12 soups around town<\/a> in today&#8217;s Daily Memphian. Downtown is represented by the caldo tlape\u00f1o at Maciel&#8217;s. Yes! Get this! Even if you&#8217;re not a soup fan, you&#8217;ll love this and you&#8217;ll have enough for leftovers. One of Downtown dining&#8217;s best values.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/coronavirus\/vaccine-tourism-is-real-mayor-addresses-long-lines-at-county-vaccination-station\/\">Vaccine tourism<\/a> is a thing now. The COVID-19 vaccine is federal property, so the Shelby County Health Department can&#8217;t deny the vaccine to people from other counties or states if they otherwise meet the qualifications. That&#8217;s a big reason the distribution point ran out of vaccine Tuesday afternoon. The county is launching <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/memphis-shelby-county-covid-19-joint-task-force-to-give-tuesday-update-at-noon\/\">a standby list<\/a> to notify people when there is a surplus of vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s the first day of the Sundance Film Festival, with local screening at the drive-in on Summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/sundance-film-festival-coming-to-memphis-in-2021\/\">Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tigers on national TV alert: Memphis at SMU tonight at 7 on ESPN2. Memphis just beat the Mustangs at FedExForum two nights ago. A road win would help the Tigers lock down the number-two spot in the American Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Flyer&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/memphis\/20-30-the-class-of-2021\/Content?oid=24708999\">20 &lt; 30<\/a> issue for 2021 is out.<\/p>\n<p>I reminded Perjorie T. Roll that she only has 25 years left to make the 20 &lt; 30 issue. She&#8217;s celebrating like she&#8217;s already made it with a piece of chocolate turtle cake:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0241.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24540\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0241.jpg?resize=478%2C500\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0241.jpg?resize=478%2C500 478w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0241.jpg?resize=287%2C300 287w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0241.jpg?resize=1200%2C1254 1200w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0241.jpg?w=1680 1680w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_0241.jpg?w=2520 2520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 85vw, 478px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for me, I&#8217;m far from being under 30, but I have a reason to celebrate today. Medium, which I write for professionally, awards Top Writer status to the people who write the most engaging content in the most popular topics. Overnight I scored my first Top Writer tag:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/topwriter.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24541\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/topwriter.jpg?resize=500%2C329\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/topwriter.jpg?resize=500%2C329 500w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/topwriter.jpg?resize=300%2C198 300w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/topwriter.jpg?w=607 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can lose my Top Writer tag if I don&#8217;t write about Ideas regularly, though, so it&#8217;s time to grind. 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>More info about The Inkwell, the cocktail lounge set to open on Madison Ave. out in The Edge later this year: &#x1f5e3;Aye! I\u2019m hyped to announce that I will be opening a new cocktail bar called Inkwell. Opening summer of this year. Took a ton of work just to get to this point. And will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/28\/thursday-update-178\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday 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\/24539"}],"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=24539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24542,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24539\/revisions\/24542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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