{"id":25988,"date":"2022-08-13T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T14:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=25988"},"modified":"2022-08-13T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T14:30:32","slug":"saturday-update-221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/13\/saturday-update-221\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed a new form of transportation on and around Main Street the past few weeks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veoride.com\/\">Veo<\/a>&#8216;s vehicles look like bikes, but they are actually seated scooters. Like Birds and other e-scooters, they are useful for navigating urban areas. The Veo scooters provide more stability than standing scooters and are compatible with a wider variety of human body types. It costs $1 to unlock a Veo Cosmo scooter and 39 cents a minute to ride. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veoride.com\/veo-brings-seated-scooters-to-memphis\/\">&#8220;Veo comes to Memphis&#8221; press release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedexforum.com\/events\/the-millennium-tour-turned-up-featuring-bow-wow-mario-keri-hilson-more--221105\">The Millennium Tour: Turned Up!<\/a> comes to FedExForum Saturday, November 5. Artists scheduled to perform include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bow Wow<\/li>\n<li>Mario<\/li>\n<li>Kari Hilson<\/li>\n<li>Lloyd<\/li>\n<li>Pleasure P<\/li>\n<li>Bobby V<\/li>\n<li>Sammie<\/li>\n<li>Ying Yang Twins<\/li>\n<li>Dem Franchize Boyz<\/li>\n<li>Lil Scrappy<\/li>\n<li>Travis Porter<\/li>\n<li>Crime Mob<\/li>\n<li>Trillville<\/li>\n<li>Day 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, August 19 at 10 AM.<\/p>\n<p>Downtown 1920s-style speakeasy Blind Bear is throwing another of their fabulous theme parties later this month. Come dressed to August 27&#8217;s Great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/s\/great-gatsby-soiree-\/404110901607073\/\">Gatsby Soiree<\/a> as though you were<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gatsby<\/li>\n<li>Daisy<\/li>\n<li>Invited by Gatsby himself to one of his parties and you want to impress the people there<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>DJ AD will supply the live music, starting with music that will make you feel like you&#8217;re in the Gatsby movie. She played the Bear back in February. I didn&#8217;t make it that night, but I was told she was excellent and I missed out! Don&#8217;t make the mistake I did!<\/p>\n<p>Velvetina&#8217;s Burlesque is scheduled for the Gatsby party too. More details to follow on that one. Photographer Jamie Harmon and the Amurica photo booth will be at the party taking pics.<\/p>\n<p>Want to read <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> to prepare for the party? No need to drop some dollars on a copy at your local bookstore or on Amazon. The novel entered the public domain at the end of 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/64317\">Project Gutenberg has it<\/a> in several different formats for free (HTML, EPUB, Kindle, plain text).<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who fondly remember Cafe Roux by Michael Cahhal on Front Street, the DM&#8217;s Jennifer Biggs has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/food\/article\/30303\/memphis-recipe-cafe-roux-chicken-and-sausage-gumbo\">a recipe for its chicken and sausage gumbo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1977 after his death, CBS released <em>Elvis in Concert<\/em> from his final tour. Today at the Halloran Centre, <a href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/bill-cherry\">2009 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist champion Bill Curry will recreate that show<\/a>, rocking the Aztec Sundial suit. Show times are 3:00 and 6:00 PM and tickets are $65-$100.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got today. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed a new form of transportation on and around Main Street the past few weeks. Veo&#8216;s vehicles look like bikes, but they are actually seated scooters. Like Birds and other e-scooters, they are useful for navigating urban areas. The Veo scooters provide more stability than standing scooters and are compatible with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/13\/saturday-update-221\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday 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\/25988"}],"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=25988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25989,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25988\/revisions\/25989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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