{"id":26067,"date":"2022-09-17T09:11:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T14:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26067"},"modified":"2022-09-17T09:11:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T14:11:46","slug":"saturday-update-225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/17\/saturday-update-225\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/cooperyoungfestival.com\/\">Cooper-Young Fest<\/a> out in Midtown. Expect extremely heavy traffic in that area. That festival can draw more than 100,000 visitors. Plus, that area will be congested for the U of M game at the Liberty Bowl at 6.<\/p>\n<p>The Blind Bear is starting a new 2 for $20 brunch special Saturday and Sunday from 11 to 3. You can pick two of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biscuits and gravy &#8211; two fresh-baked biscuits topped with their scratch Bear sausage gravy<\/li>\n<li>Breakfast bowl &#8211; cheesy hash browns topped with 3 eggs, peppers, and your choice of bacon or sausage<\/li>\n<li>Sausage or bacon biscuits &#8211; two biscuits with a side of cheesy hash browns<\/li>\n<li>Chicken and waffle &#8211; Crispy fried chicken breast with an apple pie moonshine waffle (NOTE: This item is marked &#8220;Limited Stock&#8221; on the menu)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Curfew will have a Chef&#8217;s Distiller Dinner with Old Dominick spirits Thursday, October 27. A mix &amp; mingle will kick off the evening at 6:30 when you will be able to chat with chef Fabio Viviani and distiller Alex Castle. The three-course dinner begins at 7:15. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/chef-distiller-dinner-with-curfew-old-dominick-tickets-410788548607?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Purchase tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedexforum.com\/events\/wwe-smackdown-230106\">WWE Smackdown returns to FedExForum<\/a> Friday, January 6. WWE Superstars planned to be there include Drew McIntyre, Smackdown Women&#8217;s Champion Liv Morgan, unified tag champions the Usos and &#8220;the honorary Uce&#8221; Sami Zayn, The New Day, Natalya, Ricochet, Sheamus, Shinske Nakamura, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>Expect to see lots of red and gray polos Downtown next week. The AutoZone national sales meeting comes to the Renasant Convention Center September 18-24.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Flyer has a look at the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/carlisle-cutbank-bluff-to-connect-to-tom-lee-park-with-ada-accessible-walkway\/\">cutbank bluff<\/a> that will provide an ADA-accessible walkway to Tom Lee Park.<\/p>\n<p>In observance of National Adoption Weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2022\/09\/16\/mas-waives-adoption-fees-national-adoption-weekend\/\">Memphis Animal Services will waive pet adoption fees this weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Soul &amp; Spirits, the brewery on the far north end of Main in Uptown, is hiring front-of-house staff. Service industry experience is encouraged, but not required. <a href=\"https:\/\/soulandspiritsbrew.com\/contact\/jobs\/\">Apply online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hotel Pontotoc, the 1906 building at 69 East Ponroroc, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/subscriber\/section\/neighborhoods\/article\/30996\/downtown-memphis-historic-hotel-pontotoc-redevelopment\">has new owners<\/a>. They have 10 apartments and a restaurant planned for the space.<\/p>\n<p>From WREG: <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/memphis-at-the-movies-23-films-that-left-their-mark\/\">Memphis at the Movies: 23 films that left their mark<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Cabigao plays the Slider Inn Downtown backyard tonight from 7 to 10.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for today. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/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>Today is Cooper-Young Fest out in Midtown. Expect extremely heavy traffic in that area. That festival can draw more than 100,000 visitors. Plus, that area will be congested for the U of M game at the Liberty Bowl at 6. The Blind Bear is starting a new 2 for $20 brunch special Saturday and Sunday &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/17\/saturday-update-225\/\" 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\/26067"}],"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=26067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26068,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26067\/revisions\/26068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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