{"id":26943,"date":"2023-08-23T08:05:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26943"},"modified":"2023-08-23T08:05:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T13:05:17","slug":"wednesday-update-244","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/23\/wednesday-update-244\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/resumed-safety-zone-for-beale-street-worked-well-and-is-permanent-mpd-chief-says\/article_91e21d4c-410f-11ee-9c22-1764a7efe26b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FOX 13 has a report<\/a> on MPD&#8217;s presentation of the Downtown safety plan to City Council and of council members&#8217; questions and suggestions. Some Council members want to get the sheriff&#8217;s office involved.<\/p>\n<p>Know any folks in San Diego? Tell them to keep their eyes open for some great Memphis beer. WISEACRE products will be available there beginning this week.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/8f20cc9b55a22767c932c246750aa517\/national-cuban-sandwich-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Cuban Sandwich Day<\/a>. The Cubano Torta from Maciel&#8217;s on Main would be my recommendation to celebrate the holiday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fedexforum.com\/events\/chris-stapleton-all-american-road-show-tour-082423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Stapleton&#8217;s All-American Road Show<\/a> comes to FedExForum this Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/naturally-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naturally 7<\/a> comes to the Halloran Centre on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T5qc3qZqe38\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Artist Kong Wee Pang is the subject of Action News 5&#8217;s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2023\/08\/23\/5-star-story-kong-wee-pangs-memphis-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 Star Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/malco-theaters-offering-4-tickets-for-upcoming-national-cinema-day\/article_b52fcd96-41a3-11ee-b0a1-7bcf3bc2c327.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malco Theaters will offer $4 movie tickets this Sunday<\/a> for National Cinema Day.<\/p>\n<p>The first Republican presidential debate is on FOX tonight at 8. The Trumpster will not be there. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/playbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POLITICO Playbook<\/a> has a guide to tonight&#8217;s debate.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ducksunlimited.myeventscenter.com\/event\/Dunlc-2023-76140?_gl=1*12y65qd*_ga*MTIxNTQyMDIwNy4xNjg4NTkxMTQ0*_ga_2X0ECQZQ09*MTY4ODU5MTE0NC4xLjEuMTY4ODU5MTIxMi42MC4wLjA.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ducks Unlimited National Leadership Conference<\/a> is at the Renasant Convention Center today through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/810381450818471\/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22discovery_local_tab%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22bookmark%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Isn&#8217;t Remembering Enough to Repair?<\/a> is the topic of a panel discussion tonight at 6 at the National Civil Rights Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Threads, the Facebook\/Instagram rival to X (formerly Twitter), is finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/22\/tech\/threads-web-version-meta\/index.html?utm_campaign=mb&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=morning_brew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rolling out its desktop version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Blind Bear has announced &#8220;The Features&#8221; (specials) for this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Burrata caprese &#8211; grape tomatoes, crostini, burrata, basil, balsamic reduction &#8211; 10<\/li>\n<li>Chicken spaghetti &#8211; burrata, tomatoes, pine nuts, basil, garlic, lemon-butter sauce &#8211; 18<\/li>\n<li>Italian lemon cream cake &#8211; mascarpone filling &#8211; 9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I got to try the burrata caprese last night:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bear-burrata-caprese-scaled.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26944\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bear-burrata-caprese.jpeg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bear-burrata-caprese-scaled.jpeg?resize=375%2C500 375w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bear-burrata-caprese-scaled.jpeg?resize=225%2C300 225w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bear-burrata-caprese-scaled.jpeg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bear-burrata-caprese-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bear-burrata-caprese-scaled.jpeg?resize=1200%2C1600 1200w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bear-burrata-caprese-scaled.jpeg?w=1920 1920w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bear-burrata-caprese-scaled.jpeg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You get two of these per order &#8211; only one is pictured because I split it with someone else. Burrata is a soft, chewy white cheese similar to mozzarella but of higher quality.<\/p>\n<p>99 feels like 112 with a low tonight of only 80 is the forecast. Stay cool, Memphis. Back tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOX 13 has a report on MPD&#8217;s presentation of the Downtown safety plan to City Council and of council members&#8217; questions and suggestions. Some Council members want to get the sheriff&#8217;s office involved. Know any folks in San Diego? Tell them to keep their eyes open for some great Memphis beer. WISEACRE products will be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/23\/wednesday-update-244\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday 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\/26943"}],"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=26943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26947,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943\/revisions\/26947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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