{"id":25105,"date":"2021-09-07T07:28:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T12:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=25105"},"modified":"2021-09-07T07:28:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T12:28:53","slug":"tuesday-update-192","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/07\/tuesday-update-192\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in a week, an owner of a Beale Street club has died. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/food\/article\/23957\/tommy-peters-john-elkington-bb-king-beale-street\">Tommy Peters<\/a> was the owner of B.B. King&#8217;s Blues Club, as well as Itta Bena on the third floor of the same building, Lafayette&#8217;s, and Moondance. Tommy was 66 and died from a combination of kidney failure and COVID. His death follows that of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wreg.com\/news\/local\/beale-street-club-owner-robert-mcrae-dies\/\">Robert &#8220;Lunchbox&#8221; McCrae<\/a>, who owned People&#8217;s Billiards, last week.<\/p>\n<p>From WREG: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wreg.com\/news\/reckless-driving-on-the-streets-of-downtown-memphis-caught-on-camera\/\">Reckless driving Downtown caught on camera.<\/a> Not only did WREG&#8217;s photographers film the reckless driving, but there were also videos posted to Nextdoor. On the Nextdoor videos, a police car can be seen driving through the area, observing cars doing donuts, and not doing much about it.<\/p>\n<p>The DM has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/metro\/article\/23941\/jon-mccullers-william-schaffner-covid-vaccine\">part 2<\/a> of its interview with immunology experts Drs. McCullers and Schaffner. Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They say that in times of high community transmission (such as right now) we should not be sitting shoulder-to-shoulder at Tigers games (even outdoors for football) or concerts.<\/li>\n<li>They liken not getting vaccinated to running a red light: It&#8217;s not just yourself you&#8217;re putting in danger by doing so.<\/li>\n<li>A vaccine passport &#8211; requiring proof of vaccination for people to be able to do the things they want to do &#8211; would help us get out of this pandemic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pam and Terry are changing their performance hours at the Ghost River taproom on Beale Street. Catch the duo 4:30-7:30 PM Saturdays and 4-7 PM Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>117 Prime will be closed today to give their employees a little rest and relaxation.<\/p>\n<p>From Food &amp; Wine: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/lifestyle\/cheez-it-flavors-best-worst\">Every Cheez-It flavor, taste-tested and ranked<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/bb250b3ea517cda050c6c5d3b02e737c\/national-beer-lovers-day\">National Beer Lovers Day<\/a>. May I recommend the PBR?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for today&#8217;s news. Back tomorrow or Thursday with more.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.buymeacoffee.com\/1.0.0\/button.prod.min.js\" data-name=\"bmc-button\" data-slug=\"paulryburn\" data-color=\"#FF813F\" data-emoji=\"\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-text=\"Buy me a PBR\" data-outline-color=\"#000\" data-font-color=\"#fff\" data-coffee-color=\"#fd0\" ><\/script><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in a week, an owner of a Beale Street club has died. Tommy Peters was the owner of B.B. King&#8217;s Blues Club, as well as Itta Bena on the third floor of the same building, Lafayette&#8217;s, and Moondance. Tommy was 66 and died from a combination of kidney failure and COVID. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/07\/tuesday-update-192\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tuesday 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\/25105"}],"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=25105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25106,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25105\/revisions\/25106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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