{"id":25078,"date":"2021-08-26T09:21:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=25078"},"modified":"2021-08-26T09:21:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:21:39","slug":"thursday-update-202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/26\/thursday-update-202\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Memphian has a report of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/neighborhoods\/article\/23753\/memphis-police-downtown-memphis-commission-safety\">a recent meeting<\/a> between the Memphis Police Department and board members of the Downtown Memphis Commission. Downtown safety was the topic and these were a few of the highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There have been a lot of impromptu parking lot parties that have popped up Downtown this year, and officers have had to be stationed to keep them under control<\/li>\n<li>When the kids found out on July 4 that there was no cover charge or ID checking on Beale Street, they called all their friends and said &#8220;come on down&#8221; and things quickly got out of hand<\/li>\n<li>MPD recommended that better, controllable lighting be installed on Beale<\/li>\n<li>MPD created a traffic enforcement detail Downtown to deal with the increase in reckless driving and drag racing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cheers to Penny Hardaway and Memphis men&#8217;s basketball on yesterday&#8217;s commitment from small forward <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/sportsmemphis-tigers-basketball\/article\/23663\/memphis-lands-five-star-wing-emoni-bates\">Emoni Bates<\/a>. Bates was a top-two prospect of the class of 2022. He was recently reclassified to the class of 2021, where he was still considered a top-five, five-star acquisition. Alongside fellow recruit Jalen Duren, Bates helps position the Tigers for a deep run into the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Clay Strays play a free show tonight at Carolina Watershed at 7.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KSQgU62j95o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of discussion on social media this week about whether the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/cooperyoungfestival.com\/\">Cooper-Young Festival<\/a> should go on as planned. It&#8217;s a huge street party that stretches about 10 blocks down South Cooper Street and 2 blocks down Young Avenue. It&#8217;s a diverse, liberal crowd, a celebration of all that is wild, weird, and wonderful in Memphis. Over the course of 10 hours, it draws 100,000+ people to the neighborhood&#8230; which in normal times would be awesome, but we live in COVID times.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not gonna offer an opinion on whether it is responsible to hold an event this large during a pandemic surge, but I will make this note: The festival is Saturday, September 18. If you have your heart set on going, and you&#8217;re unvaccinated, you could go get the one-dose Johnson &amp; Johnson shot this week and your body would have 3 weeks to build immunity to the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of vaccines&#8230; the Memphis Fire Department mobile vaccination unit will be at the Memphis Farmers Market this Saturday from 8 to 1. They didn&#8217;t specifically say which vaccines they&#8217;d have Saturday, but in the past, the mobile unit has tended to offer both the Pfizer and the J&amp;J.<\/p>\n<p>The Majestic Grille is now open for lunch Wednesdays through Fridays 11-2. Previously they had only been opening for lunch on Fridays. New to the menu is the Kale &amp; Brussels Salad. It has shaved Brussels sprouts, kale, apples, cranberries, carrots, almonds, and crispy chickpeas in an apple vinaigrette. Man&#8230; just typing that makes me hungry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; makes me hungry for a Majestic Burger with extra cheese and add bacon, that is.<\/p>\n<p>River City Records has created a Facebook event listing for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/s\/river-city-records-grand-openi\/1660342087689084\/\">Grand Opening Party<\/a>. It&#8217;s Saturday, September 11 from 2 to 8 at 101 South Main, in the location that used to be Bluff City Soap. I&#8217;m not a vinyl collector &#8211; I gave away my turntable years ago &#8211; but I get the feeling this is going to be a very cool store that will add to the soul of Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, that reminds me&#8230; I was writing for a &#8220;local news&#8221; platform this summer before they changed the payout structure and made it not worth my time. One of the articles I was planning would have been &#8220;The Soul of Downtown Memphis&#8221; and it would have covered the following places:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>A. Schwab on Beale<\/li>\n<li>Dyer&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>National Civil Rights Museum<\/li>\n<li>Paula &amp; Raiford&#8217;s Disco<\/li>\n<li>Center for Southern Folklore<\/li>\n<li>Gus&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum<\/li>\n<li>South Main Book Juggler<\/li>\n<li>South Main Sounds<\/li>\n<li>Alcenia&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>Cozy Corner<\/li>\n<li>and probably a brewery&#8230; if I had to pick, I&#8217;d throw Downtown Wiseacre in there<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>117 Prime now carries wines from Ashes &amp; Diamonds, a Napa Valley winery recently named one of the top 100 wineries in the world by Wines &amp; Spirits. To celebrate, the restaurant will have a wine dinner featuring Ashes &amp; Diamonds products Monday, August 30 at 6 PM. $120 per person. Seats are limited. Call 901-433-9851 to make your reservation.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/be80969f82550facfd9a0b787bdea540\/national-dog-day\">National Dog Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the sounds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/345220580595888\">House in the MidSouth<\/a> tonight at the Moxy Hotel tonight 6-9. There is no cover charge. The event is presented by Old Dominick Distillery.<\/p>\n<p>Today would have been the monthly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metalmuseum.org\/whet-thursday\">Whet Thursday<\/a> social event at the Metal Museum, but the website indicates that the event has been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>Wyly Bigger performs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1065898280884890\">Live at the Tracks<\/a> at Central Station tonight from 7:00 to 9:30.<\/p>\n<p>Bass Pro at the Pyramid will have an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/3472503619642818\">inflatable archery range<\/a> for the kids Saturday 11 to 3. &#8220;Inflatable&#8221; and &#8220;archery&#8221; really don&#8217;t sound like two concepts that would work together, but apparently Bass Pro has found a way. Each kid who gives it a try gets a free archery clip.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;ll do it for today&#8217;s post. If I get out this evening it&#8217;ll probably be Bardog or Max&#8217;s. 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Downtown safety was the topic and these were a few of the highlights: There have been a lot of impromptu parking lot parties that have popped up Downtown this year, and officers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/26\/thursday-update-202\/\" 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\/25078"}],"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=25078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25080,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25078\/revisions\/25080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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