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<\/a><\/p>\nTony, I’m told, smokes his own turkey legs and adds them to the pot likker in the greens. That’s where they get their meaty, smoky flavor. Now available on the regular menu.<\/p>\n
As I sit here this afternoon, the bald bearded bartender dressed as The Grinch is installing new 55-inch TVs so that there won’t be a bad seat in the house for watching college bowl games.<\/p>\n
One college football game will be celebrated at the Blind Bear in particular – the Tennessee Vols vs. Iowa Hawkeyes in the Citrus Bowl<\/a>. They’ll open at 10 that morning and the game will start at noon. Drink specials, food specials, local swag.<\/p>\n I hear from a Vols fan that there will be watch parties for the Tennessee Vols every week (except the bye week) in fall 2024 at the Bear.<\/p>\n The Downtown Memphis Commission will announce Paul Young’s replacement after Christmas<\/a>. Young, who runs DMC, will become the mayor of Memphis on January 1.<\/p>\n The city is hiring a golf events planner<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Grizzlies looked great last night and improved to 2-0 with Ja back. I’m beginning to wonder if an “ESPN: 30 for 30” documentary will one day be made about our starting point guard’s comeback. Next up: at the Atlanta Hawks Saturday at 6:30.<\/p>\n Stax Music Academy seeks a student services manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s specials at Bardog:<\/p>\n Back tomorrow or Sunday or Monday with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the Friday update but it’s Thursday afternoon about 6 as I type this. Sitting at the bar at the Blind Bear waiting for the Grizzlies to come on. So I figure I’ll lead off with a couple of pieces of Bear news. This week I got some insight into how Tony makes his … Continue reading “Friday 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\/27422"}],"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=27422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27429,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27422\/revisions\/27429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n\n