{"id":27513,"date":"2024-01-24T08:29:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T14:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=27513"},"modified":"2024-01-24T08:29:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T14:29:49","slug":"wednesday-update-258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/24\/wednesday-update-258\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smurfey’s Smokehouse at 149 Madison has its grand opening<\/a> Friday and Saturday. If you’ve eaten at their food truck, you know; if you haven’t, you must go. Pulled pork baked potato with cheese, veggies, and Smurfey sauce; dat is all da people need to know.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>WWE Monday Night RAW will be broadcast exclusively on Netflix<\/a> beginning in January 2025. Yeah, I know some of you will respond, “Who cares, it’s a fake sport,” but RAW has consistently been one of the highest-rated cable TV shows of the past 30 years. This deal will generate a lot of subscriptions for Netflix… just as Thursday Night Football has for Amazon Prime. Tremendous assets are being leveraged in new ways.<\/p>\n

Content is king. All hail King Content.<\/p>\n

Starbucks at Main and Monroe is back open.<\/p>\n

It’s National Peanut Butter Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shen Yun<\/a> comes to the Cannon Center this Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

Shufflegrit with the Scrub Jays<\/a> play South Main Sounds, 550 S. Main, this Friday at 7.<\/p>\n

And – one more reminder about a BIG show happening this Saturday: Island 45 plays the Blind Bear<\/a> at 9 that night. Not only will our awesome friend, Downtown regular Jenn, be fronting the band, but it will be a BIG birthday celebration for another well-known Downtowner, Butt Slut #1. There’s still time to get her a gift – she likes hippos, soup, and the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n

IBIS is throwing a service industry New Year’s party<\/a> tonight. It’ll be upstairs with DJ Tree spinning. $4 High Noons, $5 Mexican Tea shots, $6 Red Bull vodka. Door prizes for the first 50 guests and VIP cards for all service industry folks.<\/p>\n

The Cooking with Chef Eli<\/a> event at Cossitt Library’s Dos Hermanos Kitchen that got snowed out last week has been rescheduled for this Thursday at 6. Learn to make pan-seared salmon with a bechamel sauce, spinach, and fettuccine.<\/p>\n

Nerd Nite Memphis<\/a> happens at the Memphis Chess Club this Friday from 7 to 9. Nerdy knowledge about architecture and biology, great food and drink, and a musical interlude.<\/p>\n

Rowdy Franks plays Momma’s tonight. 7 PM. $2 off apps. $15\/$17 domestic buckets.<\/p>\n

The Boil Water Advisory has been lifted<\/a> for MLGW customers.<\/p>\n

A pizza festival<\/a> is coming to the Agricenter in September. It’ll benefit the Mid-South Food Bank and admission will include unlimited pizza samples.<\/p>\n

Beale Street Bears proposes a trade<\/a> that would bring Tyus Jones back to Memphis. The Grizzlies would also add a second-rounder to their bag of picks.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies have a 6:30 game at Miami. It’ll be on Bally Sports.<\/p>\n

I may post Bardog and Local specials later this morning, so check back.<\/p>\n

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Smurfey’s Smokehouse at 149 Madison has its grand opening Friday and Saturday. If you’ve eaten at their food truck, you know; if you haven’t, you must go. Pulled pork baked potato with cheese, veggies, and Smurfey sauce; dat is all da people need to know. WWE Monday Night RAW will be broadcast exclusively on Netflix … Continue reading “Wednesday 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\/27513"}],"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=27513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27516,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27513\/revisions\/27516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}