Last night I watched SMU play a high school team on national TV. SMU beat the high school team, 70-62. Next up: The high school team travels to Tulsa for a nationally televised game on ESPN Sunday at 2.<\/p>\n
The high school team asked its fans to stand until it scored its first point. The fans were left standing for more than 6 minutes. Suggestion to the coach: Next time, ask the fans to stand until the high school team commits its first turnover. Butts will be in seats in the first :20.<\/p>\n
Charcuterie box company Feast & Graze will have a brick & mortar retail location<\/a> beginning February 1 thanks to the DMC’s Open on Main program. The shop will be at 55 S. Main, right down the street from Ben Yay’s and Maciel’s. Cristina McCarter, proprietor of Feast & Graze, will get a year’s free rent, giving her time to test whether this is a retail store concept that will work.<\/p>\n Downtown bartenders: You can win recognition by submitting a cocktail in the Choose901 Downtown Cocktail Contest<\/a>. You have until February 4 to turn in a recipe using Old Dominick spirits. Winners will be crowned in<\/p>\n Now you can get Green Beetle food without coming Downtown. The Green Beetle food truck will be parked outside the Memphis Made taproom in Cooper-Young, Menu items include<\/p>\n River Time Market and Deli has a description, witness, and video of the man that smashed in their front door and stole their cash box this past weekend. The suspect is a man who is known to police and residents in the area. Yet police are telling the owners, “We have to have a name. We can’t pick him up without a name.” That is RIDICULOUS. We’re supposed to be on a first-name basis with our local criminals?<\/p>\n DJ AD<\/a> spins at the Blind Bear Saturday night starting at 9 PM.<\/p>\n There’s a Senior Property Accountant<\/a> job available Downtown.<\/p>\n Robot umpires<\/a> will man home plate for some Triple-A Minor League Baseball teams in 2022, but the Memphis Redbirds are not one of those teams.<\/p>\n THe U of M Law School has several tenure-track faculty positions open<\/a> and has a particular need for expertise in Torts.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, February 18, there will be a walk across Big River Crossing at sunset<\/a>, just in time to watch the rise of the full Snow Moon from the Arkansas side. It’s free to participate in this event.<\/p>\n Tell a tree rat you appreciate them today, because it’s Squirrel Appreciation Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n ABC 24’s Richard Ransom has an idea for fighting drag racing and reckless driving in Memphis: Start ticketing drivers of cars with modified mufflers<\/a> that make them super loud. The law is already on the books.<\/p>\n RIP Meat Loaf.<\/a><\/p>\n Broke Tall Folk<\/a> play The Vault tonight at 8.<\/p>\n There will be a blindfold poetry slam<\/a> tonight at 7 at 488 S. Second. Note that tickets must be purchased in advance (they won’t be sold at the door) and there is a camouflage attire theme.<\/p>\n Lucas Carpenter, Eva Cassel, and David Adams<\/a> play the 5 Spot in the back of Earnestine & Hazel’s tonight at 9. $10 cover.<\/p>\n It’s Bachateame Friday<\/a> at the Rumba Room tonight 9 to 3.<\/p>\n\n
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