{"id":2608,"date":"2008-10-01T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T22:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2008-10-01T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T21:10:30","slug":"reading-the-flyer-so-you-dont-have-to-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/01\/reading-the-flyer-so-you-dont-have-to-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Flyer so you don’t have to"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s this week’s review of stuff in the Memphis Flyer of interest to Downtowners:<\/p>\n

p.6:\u00a0 Orleans on Front, formerly Cayenne Moon, by chef\/owner Clint Boutwell, has an ad this week with details of their new operation.\u00a0 They serve lunch Tue-Fri and dinner Tue-Sat.\u00a0 Specials include 2 for 1 shrimp & grits Tuesday nights (bet that’ll make Ken skip trivia one of these weeks) and $2 cup o’ gumbo Wednesdays.\u00a0 Happy hour starting at 4 PM (I wish they had stated what specials are on happy hour so I could add them to the search engine<\/a> though).\u00a0 They have a website<\/a>, although it looks like a web designer from 1997 looked into a crystal ball, saw Orleans on Front 11 years in the future, and created them a site with 1997-era tools.\u00a0 If I were teaching a class on web design and a student turned that in as their final project, I’d give them a D minus.\u00a0 I’m sure the food’s good, though, and will give it a try soon.<\/p>\n

p.8:\u00a0 The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is back in Memphis December 23 at the FedExForum.\u00a0 Tickets go on sale this Saturday.<\/p>\n

p.9:\u00a0 Info on the rebuilding of the First United Methodist Church, and the new CA2 building which will replace the old Court Annex Building that burned down.\u00a0 Wow… the CA2 building looks awfully modern compared to the buildings that will surround it.\u00a0 I hope it doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb.<\/p>\n

Also on p.9:\u00a0 The MSPJC is starting a letter-writing campaign to ask Downtown businesses not to fund the Downtown Safety Patrol that protects those businesses’ customers from aggressive panhandling.\u00a0 (Dammit, I can’t get the “rolleyes” smiley icon to work in WordPress)\u00a0 The MSPJC agrees that action should be taken against aggressive panhandlers who threaten people or otherwise break the law, but thinks it should not take the form of jail time, but rather getting them needed mental help and addiction treatment.\u00a0 What they don’t offer is specifics.\u00a0 If they’d put together a plan on how this could be accomplished, that would be guaranteed to be as effective or more effective removing aggressive panhandlers from the streets as the current safety patrol is (and I mean removing them NOW, as the violations occur, not years from now after we’ve “studied the root causes of panhandling and poverty”), I’d be open to supporting it.\u00a0 Let’s see some output from them other than complaining.<\/p>\n

p.26:\u00a0 Oh, cool, the Broad Avenue Art Walk is Friday night!\u00a0 This is similar to the South Main Trolley Art Tour, but for the hip, new neighborhood-in-revival along Broad Avenue, a thoroughfare rarely used anymore now that traffic has been re-routed to Sam Cooper.\u00a0 There are all kinds of neat art galleries and living spaces throughout the area.\u00a0 There’s also an excellent pizza joint (Broadway) and one of the coolest bars in the city (The Cove).\u00a0 Hmmm… if I could find people to hang with, I’d cab it out there, do the art walk, and then hang out at The Cove after it’s over.\u00a0 Trouble is, this is a bad weekend to round up people… half my group is out of town for a bachelor party, and most of the other half is planning an event for Saturday that I’m not involved in.\u00a0 We’ll see… still got two days to figure it out.<\/p>\n

p.27:\u00a0 This isn’t a Downtown event, but I’ll mention it anyway… the Pink Palace Crafts Fair is this weekend, Thursday-Sunday.\u00a0 Good place to pick up cool stuff for your Downtown loft, condo, apartment or home.\u00a0 Note for those who’ve never been before:\u00a0 Despite the name, the crafts fair is at Audubon Park, not the Pink Palace.<\/p>\n

p.30:\u00a0 It’s that time of year again… the annual John Lennon Pint Glass night at the Flying Saucer, next Wednesday, October 8, at 7 PM.\u00a0 Blast!\u00a0 That’s right in the middle of the Downtown Alive!\u00a0concert.\u00a0 I’ll have a decision to make next Wednesday.<\/p>\n

By the way, you can still buy Presidential glasses for $5 too.\u00a0 Last I checked, Obama was leading the glass tally, 498 to 474.\u00a0 Not a good sign for John McCain at all.\u00a0 I can’t ever remember a Democrat holding a substantial lead in any glass count from any prior year.\u00a0 The Saucer, full of suits from Morgan Keegan on weeknights and conservative frat-boy types on weekends, tends to skew Republican.\u00a0 Geez, it almost makes me wonder why I bother with the place… oh yeah, the girls in the skirts.\u00a0 And the beer.<\/p>\n

p.42:\u00a0 Saba Fest, celebrating the life of Bill Saba, will be Friday, October 17 at the Cadre Building at Second and Monroe.\u00a0 Music by Walrus and Punching Nicholas, food by Notorious PIG, silent auction, full bar.\u00a0 $15 cover at the door with proceeds benefitting St. Jude, which by the way is where my new BFFs work.\u00a0 This is a good event for a good cause, and not a far commute for me (I can see the entrance to the Cadre from my living room window).\u00a0 I’ll likely be there.<\/p>\n

Also p.42:\u00a0 Bardog’s ad mentions that it is “home of the slider.”\u00a0 Those sliders are really good, by the way.\u00a0 I tried one of their regular hamburger sliders when they were handing out free food during opening weekend, and it was fantastic.\u00a0 I hear there’s a shrimp slider that’s pretty amazing too.<\/p>\n

p.43:\u00a0 There’s an article on Safari, the new tapas restaurant on Main near the Huling Street trolley stop.\u00a0 It talks about the different types of cuisine they serve, and interviews the owner and a regular named “Carlos” who is a big fan of the place.\u00a0 The article points out that a portion of Safari’s profits go to Urban Family Ministries.<\/p>\n

p.46:\u00a0 There’s a photo of the S’Mores you cook at your table at Big Foot Lodge.\u00a0 They’re made with Hershey’s chocolate bars, double-wide graham crackers, and marshmallows.<\/p>\n

… and that’ll wrap up this week’s Flyer review.\u00a0 Headed to South Main for the Downtown Alive!\/mini-Folk Alliance concert.\u00a0 After that I may hit Bardog Tavern to see what an 8:30ish mid-week crowd looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"