{"id":28497,"date":"2025-03-22T09:47:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28497"},"modified":"2025-03-22T09:47:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T14:47:53","slug":"saturday-update-the-fourth-sunday-in-april-will-be-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/22\/saturday-update-the-fourth-sunday-in-april-will-be-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update: The fourth Sunday in April will be wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was blogging yesterday about Easter being on 4\/20 this year, I got a Facebook notification announcing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/989082863172630\/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A%2229%22%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3A%22event_profile_plus_create%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&amp;notif_id=1742565866736519&amp;notif_t=event_profile_plus_create&amp;ref=notif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beale Street Wine Race<\/a> for the following Sunday, April 27.<\/p>\n<p>Wine Race is a giant day of debauchery centered around a competition among metro Memphis restaurants. It consists of<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An opening parade with floats<\/li>\n<li>A Queen of the Vine beauty pageant<\/li>\n<li>A grape stomping competition<\/li>\n<li>A wine relay race, 4 people per team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The event is held in Handy Park, right across from Wet Willie\u2019s, and many Call-a-Cab daiquiris (containing 190 proof grain alcohol) are consumed over the course of the day.<\/p>\n<p>So, anyway, I returned to my blog post about Easter being 4\/20 &#8211; the third Sunday of the month. And I thought, \u201cHouston, we have a problem.\u201d Well, not Houston, but Downtown Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>You see, there is another day of debauchery, Rajun Cajun Crawfish Fest, that typically happens the third Sunday in April on Riverside Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Except, that is, when Easter falls on the third Sunday of April. Then they move Rajun Cajun to the fourth Sunday. I did a little research and confirmed, yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1961804610968602\/?acontext=%257B%2522event_action_history%2522%253A[%257B%2522mechanism%2522%253A%2522search_results%2522%252C%2522surface%2522%253A%2522bookmark_search%2522%257D]%252C%2522ref_notif_type%2522%253Anull%257D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that is what will happen this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rajun Cajun and Wine Race are going to happen concurrently in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll make the same comment I made last time this happened \u2013 OMG this is going to be a SHITSHOW. Riverside Drive and Beale Street are going to be lined with red lumpy vomit, the result of mixing crawfish and Call-a-Cabs.<\/p>\n<p>On to the rest of the news\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I hate to say \u201cI told you so\u201d about Colorado State, but\u2026 I told you so.<\/p>\n<p>10 Arkansas vs. 2 St. John&#8217;s, 1:40 today, CBS. <a href=\"https:\/\/neilpaine.substack.com\/p\/pitino-and-caliparis-long-strange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pitino meets Calipari once more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>7 UCLA vs. 2 Tennessee, 8:40 today, TBS, truTV.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">The Memphis Redbirds host the St. Louis Cardinals at AutoZone Park Monday in the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/cardinals-visit-redbirds-nest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Battle of the Birds<\/a> in 6 years. The Redbirds have their AAA opener Friday in Louisville and their home opener on April 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/sports\/ap-sports\/ap-george-foreman-the-glowering-heavyweight-who-became-a-lovable-champion-dies-at-76\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIP George Foreman.<\/a> I owned one of his grills.<\/p>\n<p>The I-55 bridge will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localmemphis.com\/article\/news\/local\/i-55-bridge-closed-for-construction\/522-6ccfc26a-1569-4b56-be63-ecee5ce3148e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closed<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>St. Jude seeks a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welcometomemphis.org\/jobs\/supervisor-food-service-st-jude\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supervisor, food service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-juice-mane-health-wellness-festival-tickets-1104656700929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juice Mane Health &amp; Wellness Festival<\/a> will happen in Tom Lee Park Saturday, April 5.<\/p>\n<p>Crawfish boils today at Max&#8217;s Sports Bar (noon), Momma&#8217;s (all day until they run out), and Ghost River&#8217;s South Main location (1 PM).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Back tomorrow.<\/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>As I was blogging yesterday about Easter being on 4\/20 this year, I got a Facebook notification announcing Beale Street Wine Race for the following Sunday, April 27. Wine Race is a giant day of debauchery centered around a competition among metro Memphis restaurants. It consists of An opening parade with floats A Queen of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/22\/saturday-update-the-fourth-sunday-in-april-will-be-wild\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday update: The fourth Sunday in April will be wild&#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\/28497"}],"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=28497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28498,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28497\/revisions\/28498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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