{"id":27081,"date":"2023-10-03T07:19:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T12:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=27081"},"modified":"2023-10-03T07:19:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T12:19:44","slug":"tuesday-update-269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/03\/tuesday-update-269\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m very excited about this afternoon! I snagged a ticket to Taste of the Medical District, which happens this afternoon in Health Sciences Park from 4 to 6. There will be several Med District restaurants I have never been in to visit that will supply food samples, including<\/p>\n

Slim & Husky’s<\/li>\n
Sunrise Memphis<\/li>\n
Riko’s Kickin’ Chicken<\/li>\n
Sabor Caribe<\/li>\n
Paper Plate Pavilion (which operates the restaurant in Tom Lee Park)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
There will be several other restaurants there I have visited before (and therefore know their food is AWESOME), but I haven’t been there in a while:<\/p>\n
- Alcenia’s<\/li>\n
- Rock & Dough<\/li>\n
- Feast & Graze<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
 Should be a fun event. I’m gonna get there as close to 4 as possible and try to be out by 5, because I’d like to visit Downtown’s National Night Out events (particularly the one at the Cossitt Library) too.<\/p>\n
 The 9th annual Memphis Monster Mash<\/a> will happen on Saturday, October 28 at 648 Poplar. Proceeds raised from the party benefit the Tennessee Equality Project<\/a>. Open bar, drag show, outdoor dance floor, finger foods, video DJ. Organizers limit the event to 200 tickets and it sells out early every year.<\/p>\n
 Momma’s, “the diner & dive off 55,” has a couple of new promotions going on every Monday night from 7 to 9:<\/p>\n
 - Free burger night – every 7th burger that comes out of the kitchen during that time frame is free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
 It’s National Soft Taco Day<\/a>. Maciel’s would be my recommendation – probably the Tinga (spicy chicken) or the chorizo.<\/p>\n
 Specials this week at the Blind Bear:<\/p>\n
 <\/iframe><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/i-55-bridge-closing-for-construction-from-oct-6-to-oct-9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The I-55 bridge will close<\/a> for construction between 6 PM this Friday and 6 AM Monday. Work will be done on the Wisconsin Ave. bridge over 55 as well as the river bridge and the interchange at Crump.<\/p>\nFor those of you sick of the heat, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphisweather.net\/forecast.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MemphisWeather.net forecasts<\/a> a high in the upper 60s and a low in the mid 40s Saturday.<\/p>\nTRAFFIC ALERT for my Bardog friends who come there from Fayette County: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2023\/10\/02\/traffic-impacts-expected-due-st-jude-ironman-703-memphis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Traffic will be impacted Saturday by the St. Jude Ironman 70.3.<\/a> I know this slowed you down last year. I don’t have recommendations for alternate routes because I’m unfamiliar with the roads out there. Maybe drive north to Oaklamd and hit the 40 there?<\/p>\nThere were <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/problems-on-beale-street-lead-to-2-arrests-1-citation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more girl fights and a gun on Beale Street<\/a> late Saturday night.<\/p>\nCome say hello if you see me at Taste of the District! I’ll probably have on a turquoise shirt, gray shorts, with blonde hair that looks like it hasn’t been cut in a year (because it hasn’t). If I get more info on Downtown National Night Out events today, I’ll be back with a second post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’m very excited about this afternoon! I snagged a ticket to Taste of the Medical District, which happens this afternoon in Health Sciences Park from 4 to 6. There will be several Med District restaurants I have never been in to visit that will supply food samples, including Slim & Husky’s Sunrise Memphis Riko’s Kickin’ … <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/03\/tuesday-update-269\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading “Tuesday 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\/27081"}],"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=27081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27083,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27081\/revisions\/27083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}