{"id":25557,"date":"2022-02-07T08:31:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T14:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=25557"},"modified":"2022-02-07T08:31:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T14:31:44","slug":"monday-update-174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/07\/monday-update-174\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/memphis-jookin\">Memphis Jookin: The Show Starring Lil Buck<\/a> comes to the Orpheum Friday and Saturday. Lil Buck and his dancers will present a performance illustrating how the dance went from the streets into the clubs and became an international craze.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KjXA6fcIgyU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tickets to the shows are $25-$55. Lil Buck and his crew will depart for a national tour following the Orpheum shows.<\/p>\n<p>From TheNextWeb: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/the-us-tech-scene-is-becoming-decentralized-the-time-is-ripe-for-new-startup-cities?\">The U.S. tech scene is becoming decentralized &#8211; the time is ripe for new startup cities.<\/a> The 1990s are over and it&#8217;s no longer necessary to have your entire organization or infrastructure in one place. The article doesn&#8217;t specifically mention Memphis, but look at a few things we&#8217;ve got going for us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neverstop.co\/\">Start Co.<\/a>, an accelerator offering a variety of resources to help entrepreneurs grow their small businesses<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphis.edu\/fedex\/\">The FedEx Institute of Technology<\/a> at the University of Memphis, producing cutting-edge research in technology<\/li>\n<li>Organizations like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.code-crew.org\/\">CodeCrew<\/a> that rapidly develop the next generation of tech workers in Memphis<\/li>\n<li>A much lower cost of living than traditional tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Austin, or L.A.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s easy to meet people and get connected to the community here<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s no reason why Memphis could not be the next great startup city.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic women&#8217;s ice hockey, USA vs. Canada, will be on the USA network at 10:10 tonight. That should be a good match.<\/p>\n<p>MasterClass is offering a free video course on <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.masterclass.com\/blackhistorymonth?utm_campaign=mb&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=morning_brew\">Black History, Black Freedom, and Black Love<\/a> this month. The class is described as &#8220;The history you weren&#8217;t taught in school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows about Pi Day on 3\/14. But did you know today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/83780a80f3f8e34147441ca8b8e15a60\/e-day\">e Day<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for something to do Downtown tonight, the River Rat Rounders poker league hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2097730897057992\">Texas Hold&#8217;em<\/a> tonight at The Vault at 6:30. Free to play. Winner gets $125, and those who make the final table get points toward competing in the quarterly league championship for $1000.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Mondays are not typically heavy news days and this one is no exception. Back tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/storage.ko-fi.com\/cdn\/widget\/Widget_2.js'><\/script><script type='text\/javascript'>kofiwidget2.init('Tip Jar', '#29abe0', 'B0B57GDFG');kofiwidget2.draw();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Jookin: The Show Starring Lil Buck comes to the Orpheum Friday and Saturday. Lil Buck and his dancers will present a performance illustrating how the dance went from the streets into the clubs and became an international craze. Tickets to the shows are $25-$55. Lil Buck and his crew will depart for a national &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/07\/monday-update-174\/\" 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\/25557"}],"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=25557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25558,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25557\/revisions\/25558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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