{"id":27042,"date":"2023-09-25T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=27042"},"modified":"2023-09-25T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:20:14","slug":"monday-update-wine-race-2023-to-be-finished-this-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/25\/monday-update-wine-race-2023-to-be-finished-this-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday update: Wine Race 2023 to be finished this Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Beale Street Wine Race back in April never crowned a winner because of a shooting on the street (which is sooooo very Memphis). But a winner will be determined this Sunday, October 1.\u00a0 All 10 teams will run\u00a0 Cheek-in will be at 2 PM at Alfred&#8217;s with the relays starting at 3 PM.<\/p>\n<p>The other events will not be replayed. Villa Castrioti won the opening parade back in April, and Jessica from Blind Bear won Queen of the Vine. A winner was determined in the grape stomp but had not yet been announced at the time of the shooting and will be announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Blind Bear can help you celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/480cafdfc23688044bddd8fe8668c620\/national-quesadilla-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Quesadilla Day<\/a> today, as can Bardog, Maciel&#8217;s on Main, and Local on Main (which has a duck quesadilla!) Now that I think about it, Taco Bell at Crump and B.B. King is a place to celebrate too.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a pic of the collard green gumbo that will be one of <del>The Features<\/del> the weekly specials at Blind Bear this week:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bear-collard-gumbo-scaled.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27044\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bear-collard-gumbo.jpeg?resize=500%2C493\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bear-collard-gumbo-scaled.jpeg?resize=500%2C493 500w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bear-collard-gumbo-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C296 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bear-collard-gumbo-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1515 1536w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bear-collard-gumbo-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C2020 2048w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bear-collard-gumbo-scaled.jpeg?resize=1200%2C1184 1200w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bear-collard-gumbo-scaled.jpeg?w=1680 1680w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bear-collard-gumbo-scaled.jpeg?w=2520 2520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tony tells me that there will be an option of adding shrimp and he will send me a photo of that. The gumbo is good and spicy, as I prefer it!<\/p>\n<p>I have a friend looking to pay a fair price for a one-day ticket to Mempho Music Fest this Saturday. paul.ryburn@gmail.com or hit me up on Facebook Messenger if you&#8217;ve got one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphismonstermarket.com\/2023?fbclid=IwAR0-ohrfopsAHJW6R12JJQH4dEvq15QNH7g1rOekp5CHLk24rq5g7_bnwDo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monster Market<\/a>, &#8220;a pop-up for weirdos like you,&#8221; comes to The Medicine Factory (on W. Virginia Ave., a block north of Crump)\u00a0 October 13-18. They wrote, &#8220;Our 2023 collection is absolutely stacked with freaky art, weird apparel, strange trinkets, and unique gifts from 80+ makers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fooling around on Google Maps a few minutes ago, I discovered a new restaurant called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisjamaicankitchen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memphis Jamaican Kitchen<\/a>. It&#8217;s at 237 Vance, which I believe would put it just east of B.B. King. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisjamaicankitchen.com\/menus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Menu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go ahead and take a look at college football games of note to Memphians coming up this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, September 29<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 Utah at 19 Oregon State, 8:00 PM, FS1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saturday, September 30<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8 USC at Colorado, 11:00 AM, FOX<\/li>\n<li>22 Florida at Kentucky, 11:00 AM, ESPN<\/li>\n<li>Texas A&amp;M at Arkansas, 11:00 AM, SEC Netwirk<\/li>\n<li>1 Georgia at Auburn, 2:30 PM, CBS<\/li>\n<li>24 Kansas at 3 Texas, 2:30 PM, ABC<\/li>\n<li>Arkansas State at UMass, 2:30 PM, ESPN+<\/li>\n<li>23 Missouri at Vanderbilt, 3:00 PM, SEC Network<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boise State at Memphis, 3:00 PM, ESPN2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>13 LSU at 20 Ole Miss, 5:00 PM, ESPN<\/li>\n<li>11 Notre Dame at 17 Duke, 6:30 PM, ABC<\/li>\n<li>South Carolina at 21 Tennesse, 6:30 PM, SEC Network<\/li>\n<li>12 Alabama at Mississippi State, 8:00 PM, ESPN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For now I&#8217;m going to continue to put Colorado&#8217;s games in the &#8220;of interest to Memphians&#8221; list, even though it isn&#8217;t a regional school. Coach Prime is a figure of national interest.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Broncos got pounded by Miami yesterday 70-20&#8230; dang that sounds more like a high school basketball score than the NFL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/neighborhoods\/article\/38707\/geoff-calkins-pickleball-beale-street-fedexforum-memphis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pickleball is coming to Beale Street<\/a> with 6 temporary courts the day of the first preseason Grizzlies game Sunday, October 8. Then on November 18 (my birthday!), there will be a pickleball event at FedExForum.<\/p>\n<p>From the CA: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/money\/business\/development\/2023\/09\/25\/downtown-memphis-hotels-renasant-convention-center\/70867298007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Small hotels don&#8217;t help attract conventions to Memphis<\/a>, says an industry expert. When there is a concentration of smaller hotels, convention planners are forced to use 8-10 of them for room blocks, which can be quite a headache.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;ll do it for today&#8217;s news. Back tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beale Street Wine Race back in April never crowned a winner because of a shooting on the street (which is sooooo very Memphis). But a winner will be determined this Sunday, October 1.\u00a0 All 10 teams will run\u00a0 Cheek-in will be at 2 PM at Alfred&#8217;s with the relays starting at 3 PM. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/25\/monday-update-wine-race-2023-to-be-finished-this-sunday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday update: Wine Race 2023 to be finished this Sunday&#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\/27042"}],"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=27042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27045,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27042\/revisions\/27045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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