{"id":25067,"date":"2021-08-20T08:27:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T13:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=25067"},"modified":"2021-08-20T08:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T13:27:13","slug":"friday-update-186","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/20\/friday-update-186\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Redbirds take the field tonight at 7:10 as the Memphis Wet Ribs. It&#8217;s all part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/memphis\/tickets\/ribs?tfl=Memphis_Redbirds_Promotions-tickets-na-single_game_tickets-promo_game_highlight-unknown-unknown\">Memphis Ribs Weekend<\/a> at AutoZone Park. Are you on Team Wet Ribs or Team Dry Rub? There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/memphis\/tickets\/ribs#meet\">a meat &amp; greet specialty ticket<\/a> that allows you to chat with BBQ legend Melissa Cookston. Holders of this ticket will get to try ribs with a signature sauce and rub developed by Cookston, as well as pulled pork, baked beans, potato salad, cookies, and two drinks (water or soft drinks) per guest.<\/p>\n<p>Brides.com has published its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brides.com\/memphis-bachelorette-party-guide-5194613\">Ultimate Memphis Bachelorette Party Guide<\/a>.\u00a0 They named some pretty good places and they didn&#8217;t mention those awful f*cking party pedal bikes, so I&#8217;ll give the guide a little link love here. One thing they got wrong: The late-night trip to Raiford&#8217;s is not optional. It&#8217;s mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>Grizzly Bear Blues has a look at the two players the Memphis Grizzlies acquired in a trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grizzlybearblues.com\/2021\/8\/17\/22628854\/per-espns-woj-memphis-trades-beverley-to-minnesota-for-culver-hernangomez-grizzlies-wolves-nba\">Jarrett Culver and Juancho Hernangomez<\/a>. The Grizzlies still have more moves to make to reduce their current roster of 32,874,590 players to the league-mandated 15 by the start of the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n<p>The DM&#8217;s Jennifer Biggs features the Majestic Grille&#8217;s fish and chips in this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/food\/article\/23631\/my-favorite-things-fish-and-chips-at-the-majestic\">My Favorite Things<\/a> column. Chef Patrick Reilly uses Memphis Made Junt in his fish batter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/a-gangstas-pain-tour-bagg-bday-memphis-tennessee-09-21-2021\/event\/1B005B12920D2BBD\">Tickets for A Gangsta&#8217;s Pain Tour &#8220;Bagg Bday Edition&#8221;<\/a> featuring Moneybagg Yo, September 21 at the Cannon Center, go on sale this morning at 10.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/f7bf82f55bc0c335cae6b5c3f3990574\/national-bacon-lovers-day\">National Bacon Lovers Day<\/a>. Go get you a bacon biscuit at River Time Market &amp; Deli, the Madison Avenue burger at Huey&#8217;s, or the Yonge Street Burger at Kooky Canuck.<\/p>\n<p>Charvey Mac will perform at The Vault this Saturday from 8 to 11.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like Boston&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/safety\/hurricane\/news\/2021-08-20-tropical-storm-hurricane-henri-northeast-forecast\">in the path<\/a> to take a hit from Tropical Storm Henri, which may strengthen to a hurricane before it makes landfall Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Wrestling fans: If you haven&#8217;t heard, you might want to tune in to TNT at 9 tonight for AEW&#8217;s new show Rampage. Rumor has it C.M. Punk will make his debut with the company, his first time in a wrestling ring in 7 years.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;ll do it for this post. 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Holders of this ticket will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/20\/friday-update-186\/\" 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\/25067"}],"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=25067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25068,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25067\/revisions\/25068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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