Finally got my allergy medicine, which involved a drive to Midtown.\u00a0 Wow, driving twice in one week, that’s not something I do very often.<\/p>\n
Sauces is under new ownership.\u00a0 I’ve been told that Jeff Johnson, a long-time bartender at Newby’s, now owns the place.\u00a0 They’re open and will have some new specials this weekend including Asian wings with wasabi blue cheese, thai steak salad, and grilled halibut over low country grits with a side of wild spinach.\u00a0 Because the place has a new owner, it had to re-apply for a liquor license and won’t have it for about another week, but in the meantime you’re welcome to carry your own in.\u00a0 If you provide the rum, they’ll make your Mojito setup.<\/p>\n
I hope they do well… Sauces always had great food, but I often got the impression the business side of things wasn’t quite right under the old ownership.\u00a0 Sounds like this new guy has been around the bar and restaurant business for a while and knows what he’s doing.\u00a0 “I just hope he doesn’t hang up too much UT orange,” one reader commented has he sang Jeff’s praises.\u00a0 Uh oh.\u00a0 Ask Calhoun’s bartender and almost-BFF Lauren what UT orange will get you.<\/p>\n
Businesses on the block of the Main Street Mall between Gayoso and Peabody Place will throw a block party next Thursday, October 16.\u00a0 Five businesses on that block won awards in the Flyer’s Best Of issue.\u00a0 There will be live music and the following specials:<\/p>\n
Majestic Grille – Best Restaurant (tie) and Best Martini (3rd)<\/strong> Circa – Best Restaurant (tie) and Best Chef<\/strong> Blue Fin – Best Sushi\/Japanese (2nd)<\/strong> Center for Southern Folklore – Best Free Festival<\/strong> Shelton Clothiers – Best Men’s Clothing (3rd)<\/strong> A reader e-mailed about my post about RealClearPolitics, and told me that Electoral-Vote.com<\/a> is more accurate because they don’t use partisan polls.\u00a0 So you may want to check them out in addition to RCP.\u00a0 He says RCP includes some GOP-leaning polls, so the actual numbers may be tilted even more toward Obama than the RCP map shows.\u00a0 In any event, the RCP map<\/a> shows another move – West Virginia goes from “leaning McCain” to “toss-up.”\u00a0 This is turning into a complete disaster for the Republicans… if the economy continues to spiral downward, I predict that by election day Montana, North Dakota, Georgia, Louisiana, and Arkansas will have moved to the toss-up column.<\/p>\n Downtown business owners:\u00a0 Check out the CCC’s website for info on a $2500 storefront decorating contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n The concert at Jefferson Davis Park last night was excellent.\u00a0 Perfect weather and Delta Highway tore the place up with their blues.\u00a0 Great food from Crepe Maker, and from a vendor selling funnel cakes and corn dogs.\u00a0 The final concert in the series is next Wednesday, October 15 in Barbaro Alley next to Sauces, where there will be a miniature GonerFest with Jack Oblivian, The Limes, and other musical acts.<\/p>\n The Rapscallions dominated yet another trivia night last night.\u00a0 Mikey and Pete the Trivia Guy did the first week of trivia at Jillian’s.\u00a0 Format was a little different from the Saucer… there are 6 questions per round, 3 rounds total.\u00a0 Each round has one question from each category of Trivial Pursuit (although Pete makes up the questions himself).\u00a0 If you get an entire round right, you get bonus points.\u00a0 At the end of the 3rd round, there’s a final question.\u00a0 Teams get to vote which category they want, majority rules.\u00a0 You can wager as many of your points as you want on the final question.<\/p>\n Due to the wagering, the Rapscallions took first place with 118 points.\u00a0 Joe and Jake, who normally play on my BFFs’ team at the Saucer, came in second with 2 points.\u00a0 That’s not a typo – TWO points.\u00a0 The final question, after the teams voted for “science”:\u00a0 The wolverine<\/a> is the largest member of what family?\u00a0 The correct answer was the weasel family – it’s not a wolf or dog.<\/p>\n They’ll have trivia again next Wednesday at 7.\u00a0 The event is still relatively unknown, so if your team shows up you have a better-than-average chance of winning a prize.<\/p>\n My BFFs Jenny and Michelle didn’t show up after saying they would.\u00a0 Earlier, they had proposed a trivia team consisting of all my former BFFs and me.\u00a0 “That’s not a bad idea, Darbi and Kristin and really smart, and so is Suzy.”\u00a0 After thinking about it for a minute, though, I added, “Maybe we better not invite Meghan.”<\/p>\n Five sneezes since I started typing this post.\u00a0 My throat is sore from all the sneezing and coughing.\u00a0 Allergy meds have not kicked in yet.\u00a0 If I get to feeling better, I’ll get out for a little while this evening.\u00a0 I have a coupon for $5 worth of beer from the Saucer, redeemable today only, and in these tough economic times one shouldn’t let free beer go to waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finally got my allergy medicine, which involved a drive to Midtown.\u00a0 Wow, driving twice in one week, that’s not something I do very often. 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\n2 for 1 flatbreads
\n$4 strawberry basil martinis
\n$4 mojitos on the patio<\/p>\n
\n$5 appetizers and $19 ‘steak frites’
\nfeature wines $5\/glass or $20\/bottle<\/p>\n
\n$10 dumpling\/sushi combos and $5 hurricane and tornado rolls
\n$2 Miller or Coors bottles
\n$5 select martinis<\/p>\n
\n$4 peach cobbler and ice cream
\n$1.25 cappucinos
\n$3 domestics & imports
\n10% off merchandise and Art by Gray<\/p>\n
\nbuy one get one neck ties (I think, there was a typo here)
\n25% off all pink pig apparel
\nsale items excluded<\/p>\n