{"id":25706,"date":"2022-04-08T09:35:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=25706"},"modified":"2022-04-08T09:35:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:35:34","slug":"friday-update-214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/08\/friday-update-214\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great news for restaurants whose business was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: This week the House passed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/news\/house-passes-restaurant-relief-bill-2022\">$42 billion<\/a> in additional restaurant relief. The bill moves on to the Senate and is likely to pass there too.<\/p>\n<p>Action News 5 reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2022\/04\/08\/rundown-mud-island-park-get-4-million-improvements\/\">the rundown conditions at Mud Island Park<\/a>. There are broken windows, broken lights, and the Mississippi River model is filled with dirt and weeds.<\/p>\n<p>Want to work for a great local coffee shop in the heart of Downtown? Cafe Keough is hiring a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jobs\/job-opening\/1159902684502128\/?source=share\">barista<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Brass Door is also hiring &#8211; bartenders, servers, kitchen staff. Must have day and night availability.<\/p>\n<p>The Spring issue of Edible Memphis comes out today, and they&#8217;ll host a Pick-up Party at 409 S. Main this evening at the Chicken Champagne &amp; Caviar pop-up restaurant from 5-7. Specials:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two specialty cocktails $8<\/li>\n<li>Domestic beer cans $3<\/li>\n<li>Godhopper cans $5<\/li>\n<li>Poppy&#8217;s Pils cans $5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Denver Nuggets beat the Memphis Grizzlies last night to secure the 6 seed in the Western Conference. The Grizzlies come home for two games that mean diddly-squat for the standings: Saturday at 5:00 vs. New Orleans (NBAtv) and Sunday at 6:00 vs. Boston (TNT). The Grizzlies have locked in the 2 seed and will play the winner of the Minnesota Timberwolves-L.A. Clippers play-in game in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbt.ticketleap.com\/jack-robinson\/\">The Secret World of Jack Robinson: A Contemporary Dance Concert<\/a> happens tonight at 6 at Jack Robinson Gallery on Huling. Tennessee Ballet will explore the work of the photographer and stained-glass designer.<\/p>\n<p>The CA reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/money\/business\/development\/2022\/04\/07\/memphis-development-edge-district-new-restaurants-apartments\/9504340002\/\">a vacant building in The Edge at 633 Monroe could become a restaurant and apartments<\/a>. The restaurant could include rooftop dining.<\/p>\n<p>ABC 24 has a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localmemphis.com\/article\/life\/food\/black-owned-memphis-restaurant-vegan\/522-c5a211cf-64a5-4369-85db-9fd6af6eac14\">Shroomilicious<\/a>, a pop-up kitchen that will be serving at the Vegan Block Party on Mud Island tomorrow. A scientist recently found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2022\/apr\/06\/fungi-electrical-impulses-human-language-study?utm_source=nextdraft&amp;utm_medium=email\">mushrooms communicate with each other<\/a> using up to 50 &#8220;words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mass Transit has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masstransitmag.com\/alt-mobility\/shared-mobility\/car-sharing\/press-release\/21263312\/via-transportation-memphiss-groove-ondemand-expands-hours-after-one-year-of-successful-service\">an article<\/a> on the Groove on Demand shuttle service. Groove recently expanded its coverage and hours.<\/p>\n<p>Stop by Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s tonight for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/8880defae91b4f5f1273b5e717c95de4\/national-dive-bar-day\">National Dive Bar Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/274683678168710\">Getwell 9<\/a> plays Carolina Watershed tonight at 9.<\/p>\n<p>The Nhsay food truck (Cajun\/Creole, Asian fusion) will be in Health Sciences Park today 11-1 for Food Truck Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1072289716653144\/1072289736653142\/?active_tab=about\">free photos with the Easter Bunny<\/a> this weekend at Bass Pro at the Pyramid. This time of year, I have a lot of trouble telling the difference between the PBR delivery man and the Easter Bunny.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice by the Senate yesterday in a 53-47 vote. Jackson received the vote of all 50 Democrats plus Republican Senators Collins, Murkowski, and Romney.<\/p>\n<p>MemphisWeather.net predicts a high of only 53 today with winds 17 MPH gusting to 25. Tonight frost is possible with a low of 36.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the news for today. Back tomorrow with more.<\/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>Great news for restaurants whose business was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: This week the House passed $42 billion in additional restaurant relief. The bill moves on to the Senate and is likely to pass there too. Action News 5 reports on the rundown conditions at Mud Island Park. There are broken windows, broken lights, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/08\/friday-update-214\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday 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\/25706"}],"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=25706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25707,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25706\/revisions\/25707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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