{"id":24674,"date":"2021-03-17T13:17:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T18:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24674"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:17:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T18:17:57","slug":"wednesday-update-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/17\/wednesday-update-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update (finally!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day and I apologize for the late post! My web hosting service GoDaddy had some issues this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some St. Patrick&#8217;s-appropriate news. Silky O&#8217; Sullivan&#8217;s has won Food Network Magazine&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/silky-o-sullivans-wins-irish-pub-award-for-most-interesting-drinking-buddies\/\">Irish Pub Award for Most Interesting Drinking Buddies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blind Bear has $4 Guinness 14.9 ounce cans for $4 as well as 2 for $10 Irish car bombs to celebrate the holiday today. Go see Tre, Kat, and Michael this afternoon\/evening.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a reason to support your local Walgreens: It recently became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/15\/business\/rosalind-brewer-walgreens\/index.html?utm_source=morning_brew\">the only Fortune 500 company with a Black woman as CEO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Young, the director of the City of Memphis Division of Housing and Community Development, has been selected as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/paul-young-selected-as-new-leader-of-downtown-memphis-commission\/\">the new CEO of the Downtown Memphis Commission<\/a>. He&#8217;ll start on April 1. Congratulations, Paul!<\/p>\n<p>Join Grind City Brewing Co. for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2812572809007103\/\">Yoga, Sunset &amp; Beer<\/a> at 5:30 PM on Thursdays beginning tomorrow, March 18. All levels are welcome. For those of you who have never been to Grind City, the river views are gorgeous. Yogis 21 and up get $2 off their first Grind City beer following the 45-minute Vinyasa class. YOGA!<\/p>\n<p>Action News 5&#8217;s latest 5 Star Story is from The Edge District, where they take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmcactionnews5.com\/2021\/03\/17\/star-story-edge-motor-museum-revs-up-edge-district\/\">Edge Motor Museum<\/a>. The museum showcases sports cars &#8220;from post-war to &#8217;74.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Orpheum will host an outdoor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localmemphis.com\/article\/news\/entertainment-news\/orpheum-to-host-outdoors-candlelight-concerts-in-downtown-memphis\/522-c7f167ca-5c19-44e6-b7fd-e0d2f9bb31b7\">Candlelight Concert Series<\/a> beginning next month. TIckets are $25 per show and can be bought in pairs. There will be socially distanced, limited audience seating and masks will be required. The lineup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April 23: Nick Black<\/li>\n<li>April 30: Strings in the City: Memphis Music<\/li>\n<li>May 14: Amy LaVere<\/li>\n<li>May 21: Symphony Sounds: Made for Brass<\/li>\n<li>June 4: Kela Johnson &amp; The Xperience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From Republic World: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicworld.com\/entertainment-news\/hollywood-news\/where-was-the-firm-filmed-all-about-the-shooting-locations-of-tom-cruise-starrer.html\">All the locations where <i>The Firm<\/i> starring Tom Cruise was filmed<\/a>. There were several scenes filmed in Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>From stats site FiveThirtyEight: <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-favorites-and-cinderellas-of-the-mens-ncaa-tournament\/\">The favorites and Cinderellas of the 2021 NCAA men&#8217;s tournament.<\/a> I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m thrilled that they like 14 seed Colgate&#8217;s chances against my Arkansas Razorbacks.<\/p>\n<p>GREAT thread I found on Quora recently: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/What-apps-do-narcissist-people-use-to-hide-their-calls-and-texts\">What apps do narcissists use to hide their calls, texts, and online communications from their spouses or significant others?<\/a> LOL! Narcissists better hope their wives don&#8217;t read my blog. Phone always on silent and face down when not in use is a big red flag.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting thing I learned on Medium: Want to get the best price on your airline ticket? <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/publishous\/4-unconventional-ways-to-save-money-on-travel-cfbcde369ec5\">Clear your cookies before visiting the airline&#8217;s website.<\/a> Remember, what you pay for your airplane seat is not necessarily what the next person pays. Don&#8217;t allow your past browsing to help the airline figure out what is the maximum amount of money it can screw you out of!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers to the Memphis City Council on fighting the good fight against environmental racism yesterday. All 12 Council members present <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/memphis-city-council-discusses-byhalia-pipeline\/\">supported a resolution opposing the Byhalia pipeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HELLO, stimmy! It deposited in my account today! $1400 will buy a lot of PBR.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all be careful driving home this afternoon. Severe weather is expected. Turn on your headlights, slow down, and don&#8217;t tailgate.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow if there&#8217;s any additional news to report. Otherwise, back Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day and I apologize for the late post! My web hosting service GoDaddy had some issues this morning. Here&#8217;s some St. Patrick&#8217;s-appropriate news. Silky O&#8217; Sullivan&#8217;s has won Food Network Magazine&#8217;s Irish Pub Award for Most Interesting Drinking Buddies. Blind Bear has $4 Guinness 14.9 ounce cans for $4 as well as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/17\/wednesday-update-finally\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday update (finally!)&#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\/24674"}],"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=24674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24675,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24674\/revisions\/24675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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