{"id":26992,"date":"2023-09-07T09:14:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26992"},"modified":"2023-09-07T09:14:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:14:08","slug":"thursday-update-280","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/07\/thursday-update-280\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m giving my 1-hour Beale Street Walking Tour<\/a> today from 1:30 to 2:30. If interested, sign up using the link (it’s $15) and meet me on the patio of Alfred’s at 1:20.<\/p>\n

Atomic Rose, the LGBTQ+ club a block south of Beale on Second, is back open again with their new A\/C system installed.<\/p>\n

The Memphis Flyer has a look at 2023’s fall fairs and festivals<\/a>. Those happening Downtown include<\/p>\n

Medical District Wellness Festival<\/a>, Morris Park, Saturday, September 16<\/li>\n
Shop Black Fest<\/a>, Bass Pro parking lot, Saturday, September 16<\/li>\n
Crown Me Royal Film Fest<\/a>, Visible Music College, Friday-Sunday, October 6-8<\/li>\n
Wine on the River<\/a>, Tom Lee Park, Saturday, October 7<\/li>\n
Oktoberfest<\/a>, Grind City Brewing, Saturday, October 7<\/li>\n
Memphis Bacon & Bourbon Fest<\/a>, Metal Museum, Saturday, October 7<\/li>\n
Paint Memphis<\/a>, The Edge District, Saturday, October 7<\/li>\n
Soul of the City<\/a>, Elmwood Cemetery, Saturday, October 14<\/li>\n
Edge Motorfest<\/a>, Edge Motor Museum, Saturday, October 14<\/li>\n
RiverArtsFest<\/a>, Riverside Drive, Saturday-Sunday, October 21-22<\/li>\n
M-town Funk & Blues Fest<\/a>, Cannon Center, Saturday, November 25<\/li>\n
Holiday Spirits: A Christmas Cocktail Festival<\/a>, The Kent, Friday, December 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
There are not many places Downtown that do meat-and-two for lunch anymore, but walking home yesterday I discovered a place I didn’t know did it: King & Union Bar Grocery in the Doubleetree (the old TGI Friday’s space).<\/p>\n
Paul Young<\/a>, the Memphis mayoral candidate I support, has won the endorsement of the Shelby County Young Democrats.<\/p>\n
Huge news: The University of Memphis has shattered<\/a> its previous record amount of research grants awarded: This year it’s $86 million. Before this year, the record was set at $51 million in 2022. The U of M was designated an R1 (top) research university by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education recently.<\/p>\n
The Dermon Building, a 10-story high-rise at Court and B.B. King, may become a Holiday Inn Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n
DJ Cash Money (Jerome Hewlett), the very first inductee into the DJ Hall of Fame, will play the EIght & Sand Lounge in Central Station Friday from 8 PM to 1 AM.<\/p>\n
From FOX 13: Woman thrown from car doing donuts in Downtown Memphis.<\/a> It happened at Ida B. Wells and Gayoso, said to be a reckless driving hotspot. No police were around.<\/p>\n
Today is National Beer Lover’s Day<\/a>. May I recommend the PBR?<\/p>\n
That’ll do it. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m giving my 1-hour Beale Street Walking Tour today from 1:30 to 2:30. If interested, sign up using the link (it’s $15) and meet me on the patio of Alfred’s at 1:20. Atomic Rose, the LGBTQ+ club a block south of Beale on Second, is back open again with their new A\/C system installed. The … Continue reading “Thursday 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\/26992"}],"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=26992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26993,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26992\/revisions\/26993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}