{"id":27033,"date":"2023-09-22T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=27033"},"modified":"2023-09-22T10:42:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:42:26","slug":"friday-update-beale-street-bar-to-reopen-a-week-from-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/22\/friday-update-beale-street-bar-to-reopen-a-week-from-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update: Beale Street bar to reopen a week from today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Made Brewing Co. is holding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphismadebrewing.com\/2023\/09\/21\/10-years-of-beers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 Years of Beers<\/a> party at its Midtown location, 768 S. Cooper, on Saturday, September 30. The brewery will be renewing its vows that day with<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>something old: the return of Lucid Kolsch<\/li>\n<li>something new: Tin Cup, a 10th-anniversary beer; also Ain&#8217;t No Mountains in Memphis, a hard soda<\/li>\n<li>something borrowed: Burn the Witch Black Lager by fellow Memphis brewery Meddlesome<\/li>\n<li>something blue: Blue Raspberry Dockside<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Live music by the Church Brothers at 5 and Jeff Hulett and the Hand Me Downs at 6. The taproom will be open 1-10 PM. The Smoke and Rolls food truck will be on site, and the brewery will show a slideshow of images from the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The CA has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2023\/09\/21\/mississippi-river-water-levels-2023-photos\/70913107007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a photo gallery<\/a> of the dropping Mississippi River levels. This would be a good time to own a metal detector.<\/p>\n<p>Gift shop Walking Pantts Curiosities will celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/s\/walking-pants-7th-anniversary-\/691807175787264\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the grand opening of its Beale Street location<\/a> Friday, September 29. It&#8217;s in the old Tater Red&#8217;s space. &#8230; But wait, there&#8217;s more! Next door to Walking Pants, the one and only BLACK DIAMOND will reopen. $5 cover for entertainment there includes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comedy from Skunky and Friends from Bumpin&#8217; 96.3 at 7:30<\/li>\n<li>Deanna Dixon and Broke Tall Folk at 8:30<\/li>\n<li>DJs, spoken word, street artists, and more throughout the evening<\/li>\n<li>Dreamers&#8217; Revival film crew will be there to capture all the action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shelby County Chancellor Melanie Taylor Jefferson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/news\/local\/2023\/09\/21\/heirs-sue-to-stop-memphis-brooks-museum-of-art-from-being-built-downtown\/70913827007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will be the one to decide<\/a> whether construction of the Brooks Museum of Art can proceed Downtown before a lawsuit by the land&#8217;s heirs and Friends for Our Riverfront is resolved.<\/p>\n<p>The Blind Bear is putting some of its lesser-known moonshine flavors on fire sale for $3. Get them before they run out. ( * = highly recommended by me )<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strawberry cream *<\/li>\n<li>Banana pudding *<\/li>\n<li>Shine Nog (eggnog flavor)<\/li>\n<li>Java<\/li>\n<li>Peppermint<\/li>\n<li>Cookie dough<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee mud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Java moonshine, a beverage named after a programming language? Pretty savvy move to get people who work in AutoZone&#8217;s IT department to stop by after work.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the Bear&#8217;s weekly food specials, available through Saturday:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ber-weekly-specials-scaled.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27034\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ber-weekly-specials.jpeg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ber-weekly-specials-scaled.jpeg?resize=375%2C500 375w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ber-weekly-specials-scaled.jpeg?resize=225%2C300 225w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ber-weekly-specials-scaled.jpeg?resize=1152%2C1536 1152w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ber-weekly-specials-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C2048 1536w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ber-weekly-specials-scaled.jpeg?resize=1200%2C1600 1200w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ber-weekly-specials-scaled.jpeg?w=1920 1920w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ber-weekly-specials-scaled.jpeg?w=1680 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Know what I like most about this specials menu? They stopped calling it &#8220;The Features.&#8221; I always thought that name was a bit pretentious and off-brand for the Bear.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/4d4a42a9c1a8faece7d66f33892b7aef\/national-ice-cream-cone-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Ice Cream Cone Day<\/a>. Margie&#8217;s 901 ice cream shop has got ya, as does Insomnia Cookies on Beale.<\/p>\n<p>Moneybagg Yo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2023\/09\/21\/i-did-not-cancel-sh-rapper-moneybagg-yo-calls-out-fedexforum-over-cancelled-memphis-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denies<\/a> that he was the one who canceled his upcoming FedExForum show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/memphislibrary.evanced.info\/signup\/EventDetails?EventId=67437&amp;df=calendar&amp;backTo=Calendar&amp;startDate=2023\/09\/22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enchanting Strings: A Classical Guitar Showcase by Peter Fletcher<\/a> happens at the Cossitt Library 5-7 PM today.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/s\/songwriter-night-with-kathy-zh\/272525485585794\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Songwriter Night<\/a> with Kathy Zhou, Foster Falls, and Liv Zemer at South Main Sounds, 550 S. Main, 7 to 9 PM.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;ll do it for now. I may take Saturday off from posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Made Brewing Co. is holding a 10 Years of Beers party at its Midtown location, 768 S. Cooper, on Saturday, September 30. The brewery will be renewing its vows that day with something old: the return of Lucid Kolsch something new: Tin Cup, a 10th-anniversary beer; also Ain&#8217;t No Mountains in Memphis, a hard &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/22\/friday-update-beale-street-bar-to-reopen-a-week-from-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday update: Beale Street bar to reopen a week from today&#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\/27033"}],"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=27033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27035,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27033\/revisions\/27035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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