{"id":25647,"date":"2022-03-16T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=25647"},"modified":"2022-03-16T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:30:35","slug":"wednesday-update-189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/16\/wednesday-update-189\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a beautiful day in the neighborhood! Actually, it&#8217;s been a beautiful 2022 in Downtown Memphis. I just didn&#8217;t realize how beautiful until yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Goodness and honesty and being genuine have driven wickedness out of our fair city.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I can retire the troll now.<\/p>\n<p>IYKYK.<\/p>\n<p>On to the news&#8230; the Memphis Flyer has a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/pontotoc-lounges-second-floor-to-open\">Pontotoc Lounge&#8217;s newly-opened second floor<\/a>. It&#8217;s a cozy, intimate dining space that offers the same menu as the downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>In case I have anyone reading this who loses his debit card on an almost-daily basis: <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/what-really-happens-if-you-cant-pay-your-restaurant-bil-1848629366\">What really happens when you can&#8217;t pay your restaurant bill?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I learned that my favorite reality TV host, Jon Taffer of <em>Bar Rescue<\/em>, has a <a href=\"https:\/\/jontaffer.com\/podcast\/\">podcast<\/a>. Can&#8217;t wait to give that a listen. Yesterday I watched Jon rescue a strip club on South Dix Street in Detroit. Its name was Chix on Dix. Jon made them change the name.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/33253706\/ranking-2022-ncaa-tournament-men-basketball-coaches-players-1-68\">ranked<\/a> the NCAA tournament&#8217;s field of 68 based on each team&#8217;s head coach&#8217;s basketball playing career. Guess who came in at number one?<\/p>\n<p>Couple of notes from Daily Memphian subscriber-only stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chef Joe Cartwright has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/subscriber\/section\/foodnews-and-features\/article\/27620\/memphis-mcewens-restaurant-chef-joe-cartwright-returns\">returned<\/a> to the kitchen of McEwen&#8217;s. He previously cooked there 2002-2005.<\/li>\n<li>Trek Bicycle is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/subscriber\/section\/business\/article\/27562\/inked-south-main-trek-closes-bite-ninja-moves\">closing<\/a> its South Main location and its store at 3548 Walker Ave. will serve area customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Grizzlies demolished the Indiana Pacers last night 135-102. Memphis remains a half game ahead of Golden State for second in the West.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate unanimously passed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/culture\/senate-unanimously-passes-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent\/?utm_campaign=mb&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=morning_brew\">Sunshine Protection Act<\/a> yesterday. It would make Daylight Time permanent beginning in 2023 &#8211; no more falling back to Standard Time the first Sunday of November. The measure still has to make it through the House. If the bill becomes law, Memphis&#8217; earliest sunset would happen at 5:47 PM. I am one billion percent in support of this idea.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a burglar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/local\/man-uses-sling-blade-break-into-uptown-home-police-say\/UNHTHGNF7VGYPMKSTR5M2UPZHI\/\">used a sling blade<\/a> to break into a home in Uptown.<\/p>\n<p>Food scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/alton-brown-live-beyond-the-eats\">Alton Brown<\/a> comes to the Orpheum tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime readers of this blog may remember that I declared the first weekend of December 2017 a weekend of celebration. I hereby declare this weekend &#8211; let&#8217;s make it a long weekend, today through Monday &#8211; a WEEKEND OF CELEBRATION for very similar reasons. I plan on starting it off with a yummy lunch, a hidden gem of Downtown, in a few hours. 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On to the news&#8230; the Memphis Flyer has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/16\/wednesday-update-189\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday 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\/25647"}],"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=25647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25649,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647\/revisions\/25649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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