{"id":28473,"date":"2025-03-15T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28473"},"modified":"2025-03-15T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T14:40:08","slug":"saturday-update-295","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/15\/saturday-update-295\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penny&#8217;s Memphis Tigers got a tight 83-80 victory over Wichita State in the AAC quarterfinals yesterday. Memphis advances to the semis, meeting Tulane at 2 PM today. TV: ESPN2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orpheum-memphis.com\/events\/whose-live-anyway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whose Live Anyway?<\/a> comes to the Orpheum tonight. This is a troupe of people who come up with comedy routines and songs on the spot based on suggestions from the audience. Tickets are $56.90-$72.90.<\/p>\n<p>Then on Monday at 6 PM, the Orpheum will have its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orpheum-memphis.com\/events\/2025-2026-season-reveal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025-26 Broadway season reveal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fun thing to do: Google \u201celon musk before hair transplants\u201d<\/p>\n<p>StyleBlueprint has an excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/styleblueprint.com\/memphis\/everyday\/downtown-memphis-restaurants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Downtown dining guide<\/a> divided into family-friendly, date night, gals\u2019 (or guys\u2019) night, and brunch.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/a8bdcabfbe434d7b4642fbc301096a06\/national-corndog-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Corn Dog Day<\/a>. Celebrate with a basket of Mini Corn Pups at Westy&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has interest in reading the daily bulletins from the bridge (card game) tournament ongoing at the Renasant Convention Center. they are <a href=\"https:\/\/live.acbl.org\/bulletins\/NABC251\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. A new one will be added each day through the 24th.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade on Beale is ON for 2 PM. The bad weather will be outta here by then.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to remind everyone of my recommendation to avoid pub crawls run by out-of-town organizations with generic-sounding names.\u00a0 ESPECIALLY on holidays that bring out the amateurs. WHERE TO GO TODAY INSTEAD: Brass Door Irish Pub, the parade, Silky O&#8217;Sullivan&#8217;s. Local brewery taprooms and the Saucer if you like beer.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow probably.<\/p>\n<p><em>This blog is free to read, but I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nVenmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penny&#8217;s Memphis Tigers got a tight 83-80 victory over Wichita State in the AAC quarterfinals yesterday. Memphis advances to the semis, meeting Tulane at 2 PM today. TV: ESPN2 Whose Live Anyway? comes to the Orpheum tonight. This is a troupe of people who come up with comedy routines and songs on the spot based &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/15\/saturday-update-295\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday update&#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\/28473"}],"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=28473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28475,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473\/revisions\/28475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->