{"id":2460,"date":"2008-08-13T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2008-08-13T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T18:09:08","slug":"second-wed-update-overton-park-shell-amazon-goes-green-daily-grill-closing-elvis-week-events-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/13\/second-wed-update-overton-park-shell-amazon-goes-green-daily-grill-closing-elvis-week-events-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Wed update: Overton Park shell, Amazon goes green, Daily Grill closing, Elvis Week events, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Overton Park Shell (Levitt Shell) is re-opening next month, and they&#8217;re kicking it off with a weekend of concerts September 4-7.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levittshell.org\/index.cfm\">More info here.<\/a>\u00a0 Amy LeVere will play opening night, September 4.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon.com has created a new store, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgreen&amp;tag=paulryburncom-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Amazon Green<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=paulryburncom-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, to showcase the best environmentally-friendly products selected by its customers.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a cross-category store with everything from light bulbs to printer paper to sheets and towels to solar panels, and much more.\u00a0 Check it out if you want to buy products that are kind to the environment.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Grill in the Westin Hotel is closing, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wreg.com\/global\/story.asp?s=8831529\">this News Channel 3 link<\/a>.\u00a0 The article ends by saying the restaurant will reopen &#8220;seamlessly&#8221; under a name that&#8217;s familiar to Memphians&#8230; if anyone knows what name they&#8217;re talking about shoot me an e-mail and let me know.\u00a0 I have a feeling I may know what the new name is, and I hope I&#8217;m wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Something called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphisdailynews.com\/editorial\/Article.aspx?id=38178#38178\">Midtown Security Community<\/a> meets tonight to discuss security issues.\u00a0 Wonder if the reason Midtown had to form a security community is because the Downtown safety patrol chased many of the bums out of Downtown.\u00a0 Whatever the reason, good to see residents taking an active interest in their safety&#8230; it&#8217;s worked wonders down here, and I bet it will lead to good things in other neighborhoods as well.<\/p>\n<p>EP Delta Kitchen has a week of Elvis-themed entertainment lined up.\u00a0 Check their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epdeltakitchen.com\/web\/index.php?option=com_events&amp;Itemid=5\">calendar<\/a> to see what&#8217;s going on.\u00a0 They also have a special Elvis week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epdeltakitchen.com\/web\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=94&amp;Itemid=11\">menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Klush, the winner of the 2007 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist contest, will be honorary duckmaster at the Peabody tomorrow morning.\u00a0 He&#8217;ll be in Elvis attire tomorrow morning, leading the ducks from 10:45 to 11 AM.\u00a0 The semifinals of the 2008 contest are tonight at 7 PM at the Cannon Center, with finals tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; And that&#8217;s the lunchtime post.\u00a0 Still looking forward to the party at work with beer at 4:00 today.\u00a0 4 to 5 PM is going to be one of my most productive hours ever (at least by my standards of productivity) at the office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Overton Park Shell (Levitt Shell) is re-opening next month, and they&#8217;re kicking it off with a weekend of concerts September 4-7.\u00a0 More info here.\u00a0 Amy LeVere will play opening night, September 4. Amazon.com has created a new store, Amazon Green, to showcase the best environmentally-friendly products selected by its customers.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a cross-category store &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/13\/second-wed-update-overton-park-shell-amazon-goes-green-daily-grill-closing-elvis-week-events-and-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Second Wed update: Overton Park shell, Amazon goes green, Daily Grill closing, Elvis Week events, and more&#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\/2460"}],"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=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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