{"id":28561,"date":"2025-04-16T08:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28561"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:50:23","slug":"wednesday-update-291","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/16\/wednesday-update-291\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4}}\">The Golden State Warriors won the play-in last night, 121-116, taking the 7 seed in the Western Conference. The Grizzlies will have an opportunity to play the winner of Dallas and Sacramento for the 8 seed Friday night. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localmemphis.com\/article\/sports\/nba\/memphis-grizzlies\/memphis-grizzlies-ticket-sales-for-play-in-tournament-game-friday-april-18\/522-49c86ecb-dffe-400b-a0c0-347d137630a1\">Tickets are now on sale<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4}}\">Heard on ESPN in the recap of last night\u2019s game: \u201cJa Morant pulled double-barrel action\u2026probably the wrong description.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Riverbeat music fest has released its <a href=\"https:\/\/riverbeat.com\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2025\/04\/16\/who-approves-special-event-permits-memphis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Action News 5 investigates the special events permit process<\/a> following a shooting at a food festival in Tom Lee Park.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Wilson, Babyface, K-Ci Hailey and El DeBarge will play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localmemphis.com\/article\/news\/local\/as-seen-on-tv\/find-it\/uncle-charlies-rb-cookout-tour-to-make-memphis-stop\/522-102add04-8880-4693-a785-258147a777bd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uncle Charlie&#8217;s R&amp;B Cookout Tour<\/a> at FedExForum on October 12.<\/p>\n<p>Hyatt Centric Beale Street is hiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welcometomemphis.org\/jobs\/hyatt-centric-multiple-positions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">multiple positions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chez Philippe in the Peabody is hiring a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welcometomemphis.org\/jobs\/peabody-hotel-fine-dining-manager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fine dining restaurant manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/homegrown-syndrome-cult-disco-outfit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homegrown Syndrome<\/a>, the Memphis disco band Ike Turner adopted.<\/p>\n<p>Almost Famous headlines the first Peabody rooftop party of the season Thursday. $15 general admission, $40 VIP. VIPs get a buffet of BBQ shrimp, chicken and cheese\/sausage skewers, dirty rice, and cupcakes. This event is cashless.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis Flyer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/we-saw-you-memphis-tattoo-festival-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We Saw You<\/a> at the Memphis Tattoo Festival<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it, back tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><em>This blog is free to read, but I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0\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>The Golden State Warriors won the play-in last night, 121-116, taking the 7 seed in the Western Conference. The Grizzlies will have an opportunity to play the winner of Dallas and Sacramento for the 8 seed Friday night. Tickets are now on sale Heard on ESPN in the recap of last night\u2019s game: \u201cJa Morant &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/16\/wednesday-update-291\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday 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\/28561"}],"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=28561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28562,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28561\/revisions\/28562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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