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<\/a><\/p>\nWhile we were there, co-owner Tim brought in a new foosball table. It sits in the front corner where the Golden Tee machine used to be.<\/p>\n
It remains to be seen how successful the new table is. A bar around the corner had a foosball table for about a year and it hardly ever got used. Then again, when I posted the photo of the foosball table to Facebook, Butt Slut #1 commented “HECK YES.” So maybe it will work.<\/p>\n As I understand it, foosball play will be free, but the balls will be kept behind the bar and you have to put up a deposit to check one out.<\/p>\n Co-owner Tarrah assured me that she does not intend to raise PBR prices as some other bars have done recently. PBR prices in the Downtown core vary wildly, ranging from $2 (Ben-Yay’s happy hour M-F 2-6) to $5 (Flying Saucer, Blind Bear).<\/p>\n Yesterday I posted that work has assigned me my first tour to guide, a 1:30-2:30 PM walking tour of Beale Street<\/a> on September 4 (Labor Day). Several friends expressed an interest in taking that tour, and one of them asked a question:<\/p>\n Can we buy alcohol on the street and bring it on the walking tour?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n My best answer: Maybe, tending toward yes.<\/p>\n You are definitely allowed to take alcohol on our buses, but this isn’t a bus tour.<\/p>\n As you know, you are allowed to get to-go drinks and carry them around the Beale entertainment district, which runs from Second to Fourth\/Ida B. Wells Street.<\/p>\n The tour as I have it envisioned runs from the Elvis statue, a half-block west of Second, to Beale Street Baptist Church, a half-block east of Ida B. Wells (and it is Wells herself I would be talking about when at the church). So it does cover ground where open containers of booze are illegal.<\/p>\n If the guest list is all Downtowners (which I suspect will be very possible that day), I can stop the tour at Second and at Ida B. Wells St. and point at the landmarks outside the entertainment district. But if I have tourists, they’re going to want to take pictures of everything, especially the Elvis statue.<\/p>\n Let me ask the tour company’s owner and vice-president for advice on this… they are both SUPER cool people.<\/p>\n A new restaurant opened around the corner from me 3 months ago and somehow it escaped my notice until now – WingMan<\/a> at 143 Madison. They have a wing sauce named “Fuck Around & Find Out.” They also have a 90-minute bottomless brunch, a drink menu, and hookahs. (Edited to add: The place has a perfect 5 stars on Google Reviews)<\/p>\n From Memphis Beer Blog: Soul & Spirits’ “Auld Bog” Irish stout is a Bog & Barley exclusive<\/a><\/p>\n Also on the beer blog: Soul & Spirits and Wiseacre are headed to Denver for the Great American Beer Festival<\/a><\/p>\n Today is National Bacon Lovers’ Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n We could see highs near 100<\/a> later this week.<\/p>\n There’s a Connect 4 tournament<\/a>, hosted by Board to Beers, at Grind City Brewing at 2.<\/p>\n L.L. Cool J<\/a> will perform at FedExForum Tuesday night.<\/p>\n Been up since 4:30 AM… gonna go back to bed and attempt to get a little more sleep. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I changed it up a bit and joined a few people from my old-school brunch crew – the same people I brunched with in 2010 – at Local on Main, and we were served by Jessica, the same bartender who served us in 2010 (at a different bar). It was a fine day. I … Continue reading “Sunday update”<\/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\/26931"}],"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=26931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26935,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26931\/revisions\/26935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n