{"id":24910,"date":"2021-06-12T07:43:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T12:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24910"},"modified":"2021-06-12T07:43:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T12:43:06","slug":"saturday-update-172","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/12\/saturday-update-172\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/788244751865625\">Trolley Night returns to South Main<\/a> Friday, June 25. On the last Friday of every month, the shops and galleries in the South Main Arts District stay open until 9 PM or later. Many shops put out beverages and hors d&#8217; oeuvres for their customers, and some offer special discounts. It&#8217;s an opportunity to come mingle with your neighbors in a way the health department hasn&#8217;t allowed us to do for a year and four months.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/345089676991464\">ribbon-cutting<\/a> for Wiseacre 2 Downtown, twice postponed by the stupid pandemic restrictions, will happen Thursday, June 17 at 4 PM. There will be a DJ spinning Memphis music on vinyl, an ice cream social featuring Makeda&#8217;s\/Butterific cookies, and rare beers including 2019 Astronaut Status Barrel Aged Imperial Stout. They&#8217;re working with the City of Memphis to get the mobile vaccine unit out, and if they do they&#8217;ll have a beer-and-a-shot special.<\/p>\n<p>Momma&#8217;s at the corner of Crump and Kentucky is temporarily closing. Traffic on Crump has slowed to a near-standstill, due to increased traffic exiting off I-55 as I-40 bridge repairs are made. They&#8217;re going to use the time to complete renovations: a completely new parking lot, an extended patio deck, and a sign.<\/p>\n<p>Momma&#8217;s will, however, be open this weekend through Sunday. Turnstyles provides the live music tonight at 7.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I caught up with a buddy of mine who works on Presidents Island, and he said that getting from there to Downtown is quite the challenge these days given the heavy I-55 traffic. His advice to anyone following the same route is to take South Parkway to Mississippi Blvd. then turn north.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate Independence Day weekend kickoff, TRAPLIVE, comes to Carolina Watershed Saturday, July 2. Lil&#8217; Wyte and opener Lord T &amp; Eloise will perform, along with the TRAPLIVE band. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seetickets.us\/event\/Trap-Live-Feat-Lil-WyteLord-T-and-Eloise-Carolina-Watershed\/426607\">Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The remains of racist icon Nathan Bedford Forrest <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/metrocity-of-memphis\/article\/22468\/forrest-remains-removed-from-health-sciences-park\">have been completely removed<\/a> from Health Sciences Park, it was announced yesterday. Sorry, NBF, you&#8217;re not invited to Juneteenth next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/f77a5377137aa972821873e4d65b0795\/world-gin-day\">World Gin Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was my pleasure watching the Arkansas Razorbacks whoop some NC State ass last night, winning game 1 of their NCAA baseball Super Regional 21-2. Game 2 is on ESPN2 at 2 PM Central. Hmmm I&#8217;m gonna have to figure out where to watch that, since the TV I normally watch at 2 on a Saturday will likely be on something else.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wolfriver.org\/programming\">Barre with Peggy Jean Craig<\/a> at the Mud Island portion of Wolf River Greenway this morning at 10.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at work, I pulled up Weatherbug on my computer and noticed the dew point was 80. That is absolutely disgusting. Fortunately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphisweather.net\/forecast.shtml\">the MemphisWeather.net forecast<\/a> has low humidity for Tuesday and Wednesday and lows in the mid 60s Thursday morning. At least relief is in sight.<\/p>\n<p>Field trip: Sometime between now and July 31, head out to Memphis Botanic Garden to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/529108368448695\">Folk Art<\/a> from the collection of Downtown&#8217;s very own Judy Peiser.<\/p>\n<p>Programming note: Beginning next week, I&#8217;m going to have a little more flexibility in my schedule. Because of that, some days I&#8217;m going to do morning posts and some days I&#8217;m going to return to posting in the lunchtime hour. So if you check this blog before work and don&#8217;t see a post, try again around noon or 1.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Definitely skipping the farmers market today to minimize the time I spend outside in this humidity. Bardog at 11, somewhere to watch the Arkansas game at 2. 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