{"id":25317,"date":"2021-11-15T07:49:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T13:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=25317"},"modified":"2021-11-15T07:49:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T13:49:57","slug":"monday-update-164","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/15\/monday-update-164\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Biggs of the DM has an awesome article about the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/food\/article\/25338\/memphis-craft-food-wine-festival-returns\">Craft Food &amp; Wine Festival<\/a>, which returns to The Columns at One Commerce Square Sunday with 3 PM and 6 PM time slots available. The festival is organized by Cristina McCarter, a local entrepreneur. You may have seen her conducting food tours at restaurants like Pontotoc Lounge and Rizzo&#8217;s. Cristina also owns Feast &amp; Graze, creating custom, hand-delivered charcuterie boards. If you&#8217;re a foodie, I highly recommend you buy a ticket and check this out.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is unique in that it features more than just restaurants &#8211; it puts the spotlight on locally-produced artisanal food products. Arbo&#8217;s cheese dip and Mane Street Provisions are two products\/producers you may have heard of.<\/p>\n<p>Christina and her business partner Lisa Brown also own City Tasting Box, which delivers boxes of curated Memphis artisanal products right to your door. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/styleblueprint.com\/memphis\/everyday\/memphis-city-tasting-box\/\">this StyleBlueprint article<\/a> on City Tasting Box.<\/p>\n<p>Travel website Van Life Wanderer asks, <a href=\"https:\/\/vanlifewanderer.com\/2021\/11\/15\/is-memphis-safe-2\/\">is Memphis safe?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies host the Houston Rockets tonight at 7.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2021\/11\/15\/woman-accused-biting-hitting-officer-beale-street\/\">A woman is accused of hitting and biting a police officer<\/a> following an incident at the Green Room on Beale Street Saturday night. She is due in court today to be arraigned on charges of assault, resisting arrest, and public intoxication.<\/p>\n<p>If you walk the Main Street Mall, be careful this time of year. When leaves cover the ground, it can be easy to miss a loose brick or a hole in the ground where there&#8217;s a tree planter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/sports\/article\/25342\/memphis-rolls-past-lsu-and-into-ncaa-second-round-womens-soccer\">The Memphis women&#8217;s soccer team defeated LSU 3-0<\/a> to advance in the NCAA tournament. Next up is No. 1 seed Duke, apparently as good at soccer as they are at basketball, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the password at the Blind Bear this Friday, so feel free to drop my name at the door (&#8220;Paul sent me&#8221;) to get a few bucks knocked off your cover charge that evening. They have a house band on Fridays, the Albert King Jr. Band, that plays 8-12. They do a great job setting the speakeasy mood, and from 9-11 they&#8217;re the backing band for Velvetina&#8217;s Speakeasy Burlesque.<\/p>\n<p>I have to comment, Velvetina has devised a classy way of soliciting tips for herself and her dancers. She leaves envelopes &#8211; &#8220;love notes from me to you&#8221; &#8211; on the bar and on each table. If you enjoy the performance and wish to leave a tip, you simply put money in the envelope and she&#8217;ll come back at the end of the night and pick it up. She also includes a CashApp address in each love note for those who prefer to tip digitally. It&#8217;s a very elegant and non-intrusive way to handle it. So, if you&#8217;ve been avoiding the burlesque shows because you were afraid you&#8217;d have performers in your face hounding you for tips all evening long, you have nothing to fear. Come on down.<\/p>\n<p>From Fox 13 News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/local\/memphis-residents-voice-opposition-proposed-st-jude-parking-garage\/5U3ML6IAAJAVJDWMAOSS2I57F4\/\">Residents voice opposition to St. Jude parking garage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also from Fox 13: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/local\/memphis-jookin-show-soon-come-orpheum-theatre\/BGNXDKDRBRCCJP4WHUB3LNXNYQ\/\">&#8220;Memphis Jookin&#8217;: The Show&#8221; is coming soon to the Orpheum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Back Tuesday if this laptop cooperates.<\/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>Jennifer Biggs of the DM has an awesome article about the Craft Food &amp; Wine Festival, which returns to The Columns at One Commerce Square Sunday with 3 PM and 6 PM time slots available. The festival is organized by Cristina McCarter, a local entrepreneur. You may have seen her conducting food tours at restaurants &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/15\/monday-update-164\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday 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\/25317"}],"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=25317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25318,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25317\/revisions\/25318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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